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Datong was the capital of the Northern Wei dynasty from 398 to 493. Emin was briefly the capital of the Western Liao dynasty from 1132 to 1134. Fenghao, located near present-day Xi'an, was the capital of the Western Zhou dynasty from 1046 BC to 771 BC. Fuzhou was briefly the capital of the Southern Ming dynasty from 1645 to 1646.
This is a list of nicknames and slogans of cities in Canada.Many Canadian cities and communities are known by various aliases, slogans, sobriquets, and other nicknames to the general population at either the local, regional, national, or international scales, often due to marketing campaigns and widespread usage in the media.
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
Wellington has been the capital of New Zealand since 1865. New Zealand 's first capital city was Old Russell ( Okiato) in 1840–41. Auckland was the second capital from 1841 until 1865, when Parliament was permanently moved to Wellington after an argument that persisted for a decade. As the members of parliament could not agree on the location ...
This is a list of capital cities of the United States, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial and Native American capitals. Washington, D.C. has been the federal capital of the United States since 1800. Each U.S. state has its own capital city, as do many of its insular areas.
Pressburg/Pozsony (present-day Bratislava) from 1536 [6] to 1783 (during Ottoman occupation) Lippa (present-day Lipova), from 1541 to 1542, capital of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom for a short time [7] [8] Gyulafehérvár (present-day Alba Iulia), from 1542 to 1570, royal residence and the capital of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom (it was also ...
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start and/or end with vowels, abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual combinations of ...