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Chang'an had been settled since the... the area to be known as Chang'an included the area inside the Ming Xi... Chang'an was one of the largest and most populous... Chang'an was called a... began the construction of the walls of Chang'an and finished them in September of 191 BC... Chang'an city became the Asian gateway to... the court was seized and relocated back to Chang'an by the notorious Prime Minister... many dynasties came to regard Chang'an as the symbolic site of supreme power and governance... region southeast of the much ruined Han Dynasty Chang'an to build his new capital... Daxing was renamed Chang'an in year 618 when the Duke of Tang... This new Chang'an was laid out on a north... modelled after Chang'an in a more modest scale yet was never fortified... much of Chang'an was ruthlessly destroyed during the fall of the Tang empire and in the subsequent centuries... The citizens of Chang'an were also pleased with the government once the imperial court ordered the planting of... of Chang'an was concentrated here in a ward to the northwesternmost area of the city sector... the year 713 erected at a gate in Chang'an by the recently... inhabitants of Chang'an simply held their feasts at the tops of pagodas or in the Serpentine River Park...

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