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 ...

Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popu ...

in China. The area of the current city was previously along the coast of the

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, before the

1043 Yellow River Flood The AD 1048 Yellow River flood was a natural disaster along the Yellow River in China caused by the failure of a fascine at Shanghu.Elvin, Mark & Liu Cuirong (eds.) ''Studies in Environment and History:'' Sediments of Time: Environment and Socie ...

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

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under the

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and was subsequently an important base for the

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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 * Liaoning, the province formerl ...

Northeastern Army The Northeastern Army (), was the Chinese army of the Fengtien clique until the unification of China in 1928. From 1931 to 1933 it faced the Japanese forces in northeast China, Jehol and Hebei, in the early years of the Second Sino-Japanese War. ...

, it saw action in the

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and

Second Zhili–Fengtian War The Second Zhili–Fengtian War (Second Chihli-Fengtien War; ) of 1924 was a conflict between the Japanese-backed Fengtian clique based in Manchuria, and the more liberal Zhili clique controlling Beijing and backed by Anglo-American business int ...

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