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Pingyao

Walled county town in Shanxi whose Ming and Qing streets, shops and courtyard houses survive almost intact inside a 14th-century city wall. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it was the banking centre of China.

Dated events and their evidence

• 800 BCE disputed
  earthen ramparts first raised under King Xuan of Zhou (r. c. 827-782 BCE), 9th-8th c. BCE source
• 1370 CE mainstream
  town enlarged and enclosed by the present massive wall under the Hongwu Emperor source
• 1914 CE mainstream
  Rishengchang, the first and largest of its draft banks, goes bankrupt after the Xinhai Revolution source
• 1997 CE mainstream
  inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site source
• 2004 CE mainstream
  part of the southern city wall collapses source

Where

37.2038° N, 112.1790° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingyao
• https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/812/

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