Hangzhou
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- Names
Hangzhou
Hangchow
Hangtschou
Hang-chou
Kinsai
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Center of rice culture & silk manufacture; considered one of finest cities of China; devastated in Taiping Rebellion 1861; opened to foreign trade 1896; controlled by Japanese 1937-1945; fell to Communist forces 1949.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Rand McNally Atlas (Reprinted 1994); Times Atlas of World History (1993); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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