Daming County is a
county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
under the jurisdiction of
Handan City in far southern
Hebei Province, China. It was formerly one of the capitals of the
Northern Song.
History
left, 150px, Song China
It was formerly known as Beijing under the
Northern Song dynasty
Northern may refer to the following:
Geography
* North, a point in direction
* Northern Europe, the northern part or region of Europe
* Northern Highland, a region of Wisconsin, United States
* Northern Province, Sri Lanka
* Northern Range, a ...
, who used it as their northern capital.
[Theobald, Ulrich. ''China Knowledge''.]
Chinese History - Song Dynasty 宋 (960-1279): Map and Geography
. Accessed 19 Oct 2012. The city served as an important centre for learning during
Imperial China. It was renamed to Daming
Fu during the
Ming Dynasty
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last ort ...
and stayed unchanged until the
Republican era. French Jesuits settled in the city in 1897 and founded a French College (''Fawen'' 法文). A large Gothic church was erected inside the city walls from 1918 to 1921; it became a cathedral in 1935 and is listed as key cultural relic of the People's Republic of China since 2013.
[Coomans Thomas 高曼士, and Xu Yitao 徐怡涛. ''Building Churches in Northern China. A 1926 Handbook in Context'' / 舶来与本土—1926年法国传教士所撰中国北方教堂营造之研究, Beijing: 知识产权出版社 / Intellectual Property Rights Publishing House, 2016, p. 284-367. SBN: 978-7-5130-4144-7(= bilingual book translated by Wu Meiping 吴美萍).]
Administrative divisions
Daming County includes 6 towns, 13 townships, and 1 ethnic township.
Towns:
*
Daming (),
Yangqiao (),
Wanti (),
Longwangmiao (),
Shuguan (),
Jintan ()
Townships:
*
Shageta Township (),
Wangcun Township (),
Pushang Township (),
Huangjinti Township (),
Dajie Township (),
Jiuye Township (),
Ximuzhuang Township (),
Sungandian Township (),
Xifuji Township (),
Niantou Township (),
Beifeng Township (),
Zhangji Township (),
Hongmiao Township (),
Yingzhen Hui Ethnic Township ()
Climate
See also
*
Other Damings
References
External links
Official website of Daming County government
County-level divisions of Hebei
Handan
{{Handan-geo-stub
