Nanquin, City
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1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.
Nanquin, a great City in the Kingdom of China, upon a Bay, and in a Province of the same name; once the Capital of this Kingdom, and the Seat of the Court, and now vastly great and populous: But its Palace Royal was ruined by the Tartars: One of the most celebrated Ports in the East.