taiyuan

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A prefecture-level city in northern China; capital of Shanxi Province
or T'ai-yüan City (pop., 1999 est.: 1,768,530), capital of Shanxi province, China, lying on the Fen River. Known since the time of the Zhou dynasty, it was a strategic centre and administrative capital in the time of the Mongols (12th-14th century). It was the scene of a massacre in 1900 of foreign missionaries during the Boxer Rebellion and was one of the first areas to oppose the emperor in 1911. Invaded by the Japanese in 1937, it was again besieged by communist forces in 1948-49. One of the greatest industrial cities in China, it produces cement, iron and steel, and coal. It also is an education and research centre. There are notable cave temples from the Tang and Yuan eras in the area
an ancient city in northeastern China noted for coal mining and steel production
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