Yamaguchi
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- Names
Yamaguchi
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Exports coal; has commercial fisheries; has several temples; formerly one of the leading cities of feudal Japan under the Ouchi family 14th-16th cen.; visited by Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier 1550; important during Restoration period 1862-1868.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Born
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