Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Xiangyang.
The key to success in the south lay on the Han river, a tributary of the mighty Yangtze; it was the prodigiously strong and well-defended city of Siang-yang.
2008, Andrew Roberts, editor, Great Commanders of the Medieval World, Quercus Publishing, →ISBN, pages 163–1642 more examples
War being decided, through his advice it was planned to begin by the siege of Siang yang on the northern bank of the Han; the possession of this city would facilitate the conquest of the great Yang tse region.
[1908, Jeremiah Curtin, The Mongols: A History, →ISBN, page 341Siang-yang is situated in the northern part of the province of Hu-kuang, adjoining to that of Kiang-nan, upon the river Han, which discharges itself into the Kiang....According to those who have written on the authority of the Chinese annals, Siang-yang was invested in 1269, and taken in 1273; whereas Hang cheu, the capital of the Song, was not summoned until 1276....The operations were directed, in the first instance, against Fan-ching, on the northern side of the Han, opposite to, and a kind of suburb of, Siang-yang, which appears from the plan in Du Halde to be in part encompassed by a bend of that river.
1914, The Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian, →OCLC, pages 280–281
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