The Marco Polo Bridge or Lugou Bridge (simplified Chinese: 卢沟桥; traditional Chinese: 盧溝橋; pinyin: Lúgōu Qiáo)[1] is a stone bridge located 15 km southwest of Beijing's city center in the Fengtai District. It bridges the Yongding River, a major tributary of Hai River. Situated at the eastern end of the bridge is the Wanping Fortress, a historic 17th-century fortress, with the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression inside.
The Marco Polo Bridge is well known because it was highly praised by the Venetian traveler Marco Polo during his visit to China in the 13th century (leading the bridge to become known in Europe simply as the Marco Polo Bridge), and for the 20th-century Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which marked the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945).
In recent years, the water of Yongding River has been diverted to different areas of Beijing, so there is often no water under the bridge.[citation needed]
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The MarcoPoloBridge or Lugou Bridge (simplified Chinese: 卢沟桥; traditional Chinese: 盧溝橋; pinyin: Lúgōu Qiáo) is a stone bridge located 15 km southwest...
The MarcoPoloBridge incident, also known as the Lugou Bridge incident or the July 7 incident, was a battle during July 1937 in the district of Beijing...
MarcoPolo (/ˈmɑːrkoʊ ˈpoʊloʊ/ , Venetian: [ˈmaɾko ˈpolo], Italian: [ˈmarko ˈpɔːlo] ; c. 1254 – 8 January 1324) was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer...
escalated into full-scale combat. It is known as the MarcoPoloBridge Incident, and also the Lugou Bridge Incident. The Museum of the War of Chinese People's...
Second Sino-Japanese War started on July 7, 1937, with a skirmish at MarcoPoloBridge which escalated rapidly into a full-scale war in northern China between...
territory of China and Southeast Asia. The invasion of Manchuria, or the MarcoPoloBridge Incident of 7 July 1937, are sometimes cited as alternative starting...
July 1937, the Japanese conducted a practice night attack around the MarcoPoloBridge, firing blanks in the air. The Chinese, thinking an attack was underway...
Infantry Regiment. He experienced combat for the first time during the MarcoPoloBridge Incident, and subsequently served with distinction during the Second...
1937, and was thus the leading Japanese officer at the time of the MarcoPoloBridge Incident from July 7 to 9. However, Tashiro was hospitalized for heart...
near the MarcoPoloBridge. Nearly 1.4 kilometres in length, it is a trademark bridge[citation needed] of the 5th Ring Road. Under the bridge runs many...
Kinmochi, Konoe was appointed prime minister by Emperor Hirohito. The MarcoPoloBridge Incident took place a month after his appointment and escalated into...
behind the launch of hostilities against China in retaliation for the MarcoPoloBridge Incident. After being named the Army’s Chief of Staff in 1940, he...
Lugou Bridge was built over it in 1189. When MarcoPolo visited the city during the Yuan dynasty, he crossed the Yongding River on the Lugou Bridge, which...
northern China and Inner Mongolia. When full-scale war broke out in the MarcoPoloBridge Incident in July 1937, its forces participated in the Battle of Beiping-Tianjin...
Temple, Nanjing, Ming dynasty Stele in honor of the rebuilding of the MarcoPoloBridge by the Kangxi Emperor, Beijing, 1668 Drum Tower, Nanjing. Commemorates...
of war. These conflicts finally escalated in July 1937, when the MarcoPoloBridge Incident triggered the full advance from Japan. Shanghai was China's...
Brigade in Operation Chahar, his only real combat experience. After the MarcoPoloBridge Incident marking the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Tojo ordered...
Hebei Army in Tongzhou, China, on 29 July 1937, shortly after the MarcoPoloBridge Incident, which marked the official beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese...
of Resistance" against the Empire of Japan as opposed to the 1937 MarcoPoloBridge incident. Historian Emily Matson stated that this shift in the official...
[citation needed] Ji became famous across China for his presence at the MarcoPoloBridge Incident and the battles that followed. As a colonel, Ji was the regimental...
reasons.[citation needed] In Japanese Manchuria, Japan staged the MarcoPoloBridge Incident in 1937 as a casus belli to initiate the Second World War...
Japanese Army (IJA) launched a full-scale invasion of China after the MarcoPoloBridge Incident. Both Beijing and Tianjin had fallen to the Japanese by 30...
MS MarcoPolo was a cruise ship originally built as ocean liner Aleksandr Pushkin in 1965 by Mathias-Thesen-Werft, East Germany for the Soviet Union's...
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