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Datong China : Datong Travel Information, Map, Datong Hotel Guide and Picture (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Datong coal is everywhere in China : tons of it powering the whole of Shanxi and other cities beyond, piles of it chugging along the roads around town in Soviet style off-blue trucks, smears of it discovered on a face-wiped handkerchief. |
 | | Datong was originally, over 2,200 years ago, founded as a military stronghold, Which is lying in the northern area of Shanxi Province, holding out the hordes that frequently pushed south from Mongolia. |
 | | Datong regained importance in 916 AD when the city was again made capital, this time of the Buddhist Liao Dynasty (916-1125 AD), and this continued on into the ensuing Jin Dynasty (1115-1234 AD). |
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