jinan

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A sub-provincial city in eastern China; capital of Shandong Province
or Chi-nan conventional Tsinan City (pop., 1999 est.: 1,713,036), capital of Shandong province, northeastern China. It dates to the Zhou dynasty ( 11th-3rd century BC) and earlier and has been an administrative centre since the 8th century BC. Nearby Mount Tai was one of China's greatest holy mountains; many Buddhist cave temples were built in the hills south of the city in the 4th-7th centuries AD. It was made the capital of Shandong under the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Opened to foreign commerce in 1904, it developed further after becoming a railroad junction in 1912. It is now a major administrative and industrial centre and Shandong's chief cultural centre, with agricultural, medical, and engineering colleges and a large university (1926)