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Hangzhou: History, Former Names & Timeline

Lakeside city south of the Yangtze, the Southern Song capital, which Marco Polo called the finest and most splendid city in the world.

Map showing Hangzhou in 1100Hangzhou
Border map for 1100. See the world in 1100.

Explore Hangzhou in the interactive map

Former names of Hangzhou

FromNameNote
AD 589Hangzhou
1138Lin'antemporary capital of the Southern Song

Timeline of Hangzhou

YearEvent
AD 610The Grand Canal reaches Hangzhou
1138The Southern Song makes Lin'an its capital
1276Yuan troops enter Lin'an and the Southern Song court surrenders

Who ruled Hangzhou

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–201 BCZhou states
200 BC–2 BCHan Empire
1 BC–299Han
300–499Jin
500–599Jin Empire
600–799Sui Empire
800–999Tang Empire
1000–1299Song Empire
1300–1491Great Khanate
1492–1499Ming Empire
1500–1649Ming Chinese Empire
1650–1782Manchu Empire
1783–1814Qing Empire
1815–1919Manchu Empire
1920–1937Chinese Warlords
1938–1944Chinese warlords
1945–todayChina

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