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Yangzhou or Yangchow , city (1994 est. pop. 355,500), Jiangsu prov., China, on the Grand Canal. It is an agricultural market and transportation center with textile and other light industries. An ancient walled city, Yangzhou was in the 6th cent. one of the three capitals of the Sui dynasty and was later an important cultural center under the T'ang dynasty; it also was a center of Nestorian Christianity (see Nestorian Church ). Marco Polo was an official there from 1282 to 1285. Yangzhou is famous for its storytellers (who still perform today) as well as for its historic buildings and former palaces. The city was formerly known as Jiangdu.

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Yangzhou

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Yangzhou, Jiangsu/China Han Cheng, Kuangling Lying a little north of the Yangtze River, the first syllable is thought to come from the phrase yáng bō ‘the swelling of waves’ from yáng ‘swelling’ and bō ‘waves’. The city was founded as Han Town in 486 bc and it was renamed Kuangling in the 4th century bc. It received its present name in ad 588 and became the capital of the Sui dynasty (581–618) in 605.

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