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Historical province of the Ming Empire in China
Nanzhili,
formerly
romanized as Nan-chih-li and also known as South or Southern Zhili or Chih-li, was a
historical
province of the
Ming Empire. Its capital was
Nanjing, from which it is also sometimes known as Nanjing or Nanking Province. Nanzhili combined areas of the
Yuan
provinces of
Henan Jiangbei and
Jiangzhe and took its name—
Chinese for "Southern Directly Administered Area"—from Nanjing's status as the Ming's
national capital under the
Hongwu Emperor and as the secondary capital after the
Yongle Emperor's move to
Beijing, which oversaw
Beizhili or the Northern Directly Administered Area. During the early
Qing Dynasty,[
when?] Nanzhili was renamed
Jiangnan and then divided into the separate
provinces of
Jiangsu and
Anhui. Under the
Republic and
People's Republic of China, an area of Jiangsu also became the
provincial-level municipality of
Shanghai.
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