Daming County is a county under the jurisdiction of Handan City in far southern Hebei Province, China. It was formerly one of the capitals of the Northern Song.
History
Song China
It was formerly known as Beijing under the Northern Song dynasty, who used it as their northern capital.[1] The city served as an important centre for learning during Imperial China. It was renamed to Daming Fu during the Ming Dynasty and stayed unchanged until the Republican era. French Jesuits settled in the city in 1897 and founded a French College (Fawen 法文). A large Gothic church was erected inside the city walls from 1918 to 1921; it became a cathedral in 1935 and is listed as key cultural relic of the People's Republic of China since 2013.[2]
Administrative divisions
Daming County includes 6 towns, 13 townships, and 1 ethnic township.[3]
^Coomans Thomas 高曼士, and Xu Yitao 徐怡涛. Building Churches in Northern China. A 1926 Handbook in Context / 舶来与本土—1926年法国传教士所撰中国北方教堂营造之研究, Beijing: 知识产权出版社 / Intellectual Property Rights Publishing House, 2016, p. 284-367. ISBN978-7-5130-4144-7 (bilingual book translated by Wu Meiping 吴美萍).
^2011年统计用区划代码和城乡划分代码：大名县 (in Chinese). National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China. Archived from the original on November 29, 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
