Gaocheng
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Definitions
- 1 A town in Sui, Suizhou, Hubei, in central China.
- 2 A district of Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China.
"It has been shown that remains of Erh-li-kang type occur throughout the region that was to become the Shang capital in the dynasty's final centuries, in Tz'u Hsien, Han-tan, and Hsing-t'ai. Further north, an important Shang site was found near T'ai-hsi-ts'un 台西村, west of Kao-ch'eng, near Shih-chia-chuang, and excavated in 1965,³ 1972,⁴ and 1973.⁵"
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More examples"It has been shown that remains of Erh-li-kang type occur throughout the region that was to become the Shang capital in the dynasty's final centuries, in Tz'u Hsien, Han-tan, and Hsing-t'ai. Further north, an important Shang site was found near T'ai-hsi-ts'un 台西村, west of Kao-ch'eng, near Shih-chia-chuang, and excavated in 1965,³ 1972,⁴ and 1973.⁵"
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 高城 (Gāochéng).
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 藁城 (Gǎochéng).
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