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Hangchow

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Hang·chow or Hang·chou  (hngchou, hängj)
See Hangzhou.
Hangchow
n
(Placename) a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Hangzhou
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Noun1.Hangchow - a city of eastern China on Hangzhou BayHangchow - a city of eastern China on Hangzhou Bay; regarded by Marco Polo as the finest city in the world
Hangzhou
Cathay, China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
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In the Chekiang Province, under the Yuan dynasty (1206-1368) a government for weaving K''o-ssu was established at Hangchow.
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] By 1276, however, the Mongol militarists encirclement of Hangchow and the defeat of Song sea power brought an end to the dynasty and an end to the finest age in the production of pottery.
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1 of Hangchow, China had an even shorter name, for it was only one letter long and that letter displaced less space than any other in the alphabet.
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