For changes to the English spelling of the city's name, see Names of Beijing. For other administrative divisions called Beijing in Chinese history, see Beijing (disambiguation) and the History of the administrative divisions of China
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Historical Names of Beijing
Year
Name
Dynasty
Notes
c. 11th century BC
City of Ji 蓟城
State of Ji (Zhou dynasty)
[Note 1]
c. 7th century BC
State of Yan (Zhou dynasty, Warring States)
221 BC
Qin
[Note 2]
206 BC
State of Yan
[Note 3]
202 BC
Han
106 BC - 318 AD
City of Ji Youzhou 幽州
Han, Wei, Western Jin (晋)
[Note 4]
319
Later Zhao
[Note 5]
350
Eastern Jin (晋)
[Note 6]
352–57
Former Yan
[Note 7]
370
Former Qin
[Note 8]
385
Later Yan
[Note 9]
397
Northern Dynasties
[Note 10]
607
City of Ji
Sui
[Note 11]
616
Youzhou
Tang
[Note 12]
742
Fanyang 范阳 Youzhou
759
Yanjing 燕京
765
Youzhou
907
Later Liang
911-13
Yan (Five Dynasties)
913
Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin (后晋)
938
Nanjing 南京
Liao
[Note 13]
1122
Northern Liao
Yanjing
Jin (金)
1122
1123
Yanshan 燕山
Song
1125
Yanjing
Jin (金)
1151
Zhongdu 中都
[Note 14]
1215
Yanjing
Yuan
1271
Dadu (Khanbaliq) 大都
1368
Beiping 北平
Ming
[Note 15]
1403
Beijing 北京
1420
1644
Qing
1912
Republic of China
1928
Beiping
1937–40
Beijing
[Note 16]
1945
Beiping
1949–present
Beijing
People's Republic of China
Capital of polity
The city of Beijing has a long and rich history that dates back over 3,000 years.[11][12]
Prior to the unification of China by the First Emperor in 221 BC, Beijing had been for centuries the capital of the ancient states of Ji and Yan. It was a provincial center in the earliest unified empires of China, Qin and Han. The northern border of ancient China ran close to the present city of Beijing, and northern nomadic tribes frequently broke in from across the border. Thus, the area that was to become Beijing emerged as an important strategic and a local political centre.[13] During the first millennia of imperial rule, Beijing was a provincial city in northern China. Its stature grew in the 10th to the 13th centuries when the nomadic Khitan and forest-dwelling Jurchen peoples from beyond the Great Wall expanded southward and made the city a capital of their dynasties, the Liao and Jin. When Kublai Khan made Dadu the capital of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), all of China was ruled from Beijing for the first time. From 1279 onward, with the exception of two interludes from 1368 to 1420 and 1928 to 1949, Beijing would remain as China's capital, serving as the seat of power for the Ming dynasty (1421–1644), the Manchu-led Qing dynasty (1644–1912), the early Republic of China (1912–1928) and now the People's Republic of China (1949–present).
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^Steve Luck (1998-10-22). Oxford's American Desk Encyclopedia. Oxford University Press US. p. 89. ISBN 0-19-521465-X. A settlement since c. 1000 BC, Beijing served as China's capital from 1421 to 1911.
^Ashok K. Dutt (1994). The Asian city: processes of development, characteristics, and planning. Springer. p. 41. ISBN 0-7923-3135-4. Beijing is the quintessential example of traditional Chinese city. Beijing's earliest period of recorded settlement dates back to about 1045 BC.
^"The Britannica Guide to Modern China: A Comprehensive Introduction to the World's New Economic Giant". Britannica.
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