Meaning of Jiayuguan | Babel Free

Definitions

A prefecture-level city of Gansu, China.

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Examples

“This reconstructed Great Wall stretched from the River Yalu in the east, on the border with Korea, to Chiayükuan in Kansu Province.”

“There is a striving towards naturalism in agricultural scenes painted on bricks in tombs of the third century AD recently excavated at Chia-yü-kuan in Kansu Province which is reminiscent of later European illuminated manuscripts such as the English fifteenth-century Luttrell Psalter in the British Library.”

“Jiuquan is 150 miles into the Gobi Desert from the nearest city, Jiayuguan in Gansu Province.”

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