
Junliangcheng
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: t , s , p ''Jūnliángchéng'', w Chun-liang-Cheng, lit. "Army Depot". is a town in the
Dongli District
Dongli District () is a district of the municipality of Tianjin, People's Republic of China. Located in the district are Tianjin Binhai International Airport and Tianjin Airlines headquarters.
Administrative divisions
There are 9 subdistricts ...
of
Tianjin
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in
China.
The area of the current city was previously along the coast of the
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* Bohai Bay, one of t ...
, before the
1043 Yellow River Flood
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shifted the river's course in such a way that the shoreline was moved forward around over the next century and a half.
Junliangcheng was included among the cities occupied by the
Eight-Nation Alliance
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under the
Boxer Protocol
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and was subsequently an important base for the
Fengtian clique
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during
China's
Warlord era. As the headquarters for the
Fengtian Fengtian (; postal: Fengtien; Manchu: ''Abkai imiyangga fu'') is:
* Shenyang, largest city and provincial capital of Liaoning province, which was formerly administered under Fengtian Fu, which was abolished in 1910
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or
Northeastern Army
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, it saw action in the
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and
Second Zhili–Fengtian War
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s.
See also
*
Junliangcheng North Railway Station
References
Towns in Tianjin
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