Daming County is a
county
A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...
under the jurisdiction of
Handan
Handan is a prefecture-level city located in the southwest of Hebei province, China. The southernmost prefecture-level city of the province, it borders Xingtai on the north, and the provinces of Shanxi on the west, Henan on the south and Shando ...
City in far southern
Hebei Province
Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...
, China. It was formerly one of the capitals of the
Northern Song
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.
History
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It was formerly known as Beijing under the
Northern Song dynasty
The Song dynasty ( ) was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song, who usurped the throne of the Later Zhou dynasty and went on to conquer the rest of the Ten Kingdoms, endin ...
, who used it as their northern capital.
[Theobald, Ulrich. ''China Knowledge''.]
Chinese History - Song Dynasty 宋 (960–1279): Map and Geography
. Accessed 19 Oct 2012. The city served as an important centre for learning during
Imperial China
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. It was renamed to Daming
Fu during the
Ming Dynasty
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and stayed unchanged until the
Republican era. French Jesuits settled in the city in 1897 and founded a French College (''Fawen'' 法文). A large Gothic church was erected inside the city walls from 1918 to 1921; it became a cathedral in 1935 and is listed as key cultural relic of the People's Republic of China since 2013.
[Coomans Thomas 高曼士, and Xu Yitao 徐怡涛. ''Building Churches in Northern China. A 1926 Handbook in Context'' / 舶来与本土—1926年法国传教士所撰中国北方教堂营造之研究, Beijing: 知识产权出版社 / Intellectual Property Rights Publishing House, 2016, p. 284-367. (bilingual book translated by Wu Meiping 吴美萍).]
Administrative divisions
Daming County includes 6 towns, 13 townships, and 1 ethnic township.
Towns:
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Daming (),
Yangqiao (),
Wanti (),
Longwangmiao (),
Shuguan (),
Jintan
Jintan District is a District (China), district under the administration of Changzhou in the Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China.
History
Jintan, known as Jinshan () in ancient times, was a township of Yanling commandery since ...
()
Townships:
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Shageta Township (),
Wangcun Township (),
Pushang Township (),
Huangjinti Township (),
Dajie Township (),
Jiuye Township (),
Ximuzhuang Township (),
Sungandian Township (),
Xifuji Township (),
Niantou Township (),
Beifeng Township (),
Zhangji Township (),
Hongmiao Township (),
Yingzhen Hui Ethnic Township ()
Climate
See also
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Other Damings
References
External links
Official website of Daming County government
County-level divisions of Hebei
Handan
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