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MUKDEN (Chinese Sheengking)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 958 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MUKDEN (See also:Chinese Sheengking) , the See also:capital of See also:Manchuria, on the Hun-ho, See also:Ito m. N.E. of Niuchwang, in 41° 51' N., 123° 38' E., with a See also:population of 250,000. It is a centre for See also:trade and also for missionary enterprise. It was formerly the headquarters of the Manchu See also:dynasty, and their tombs See also:lie within its confines. Mukden is a See also:fine See also:town, with splendid walls, about a mile See also:long each way. The suburbs extend a considerable distance from the See also:city and are surrounded by mud walls. In the centre of the town stands a small See also:palace surrounded by an inner See also:wall and roofed with yellow tiles. The boots and See also:pack of Nurhachu, the founder of the See also:present Chinese dynasty, who was a pedlar, are preserved there. Nurhachu's son, the See also:emperor T'ien-tsung (1627-1636), built temples to See also:heaven and See also:earth in the neighbourhood of the city in See also:imitation of those at See also:Peking. These are much dilapidated. Four or five See also:miles to the See also:east of the town stands the Fu-See also:ling or " happy See also:tomb," where the remains of Nurhachu See also:rest, the See also:outer 1 Al Mulfaddasi =" the Jerusalemite."See also:gates of which are adorned with a See also:green See also:majolica See also:representation of an imperial See also:dragon. The Emperor K'ien See also:lung (1726-1796) wrote a poem on Mukden, which was translated into See also:French by Pere See also:Amiot and attracted the See also:attention of See also:Voltaire.

During the Russo-See also:

Japanese See also:War in 1905 some of the heaviest fighting took See also:place before Mukden, what is known as the " See also:battle of Mukden " covering operations from the 19th of See also:February till the Japanese occupied Mukden on the loth of See also:March and the Russians retreated northward on the 12th.

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