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Show Noma Often Changed The KtiMftlttn capital lias been suli Jected to many name change, hut In this respect Is a long aecunil i the recently re-cently beleaguered Peking. In I lie Twelfth ceutury II.' C. 1'eking was known as Oil, but this wan changed to Tea early In the Christian era. In the Seventh century A. I). It became Yo-Chou, and 800 years later Nan-Ohlng. Nan-Ohlng. This, was again altered In the following century to Ten-l'hlng, and again to th more Imposing-sounding Khan-ballgh In the Thirteenth century. Its present name of Pel-chins or Peklng wa fixed upon nearly 000 years sgo, though even this Is not Its official title, which Is Shun-tlen-fu. |
