Jiankang

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Jiankang (建康城 in pinyin: Jiànkāng chéng), formerly known as Jianye (建業 Jiànyè) until Eastern Jin Dynasty (317 – 420), was an ancient city in China, located west of present-day Nanjing, in south Jiangning County (江寧縣 Jiāngníng Xiàn). It was during the Sui Dynasty that Jiankang was renamed to Jiangning.

Ruins of Jiankang's city walls can still be seen today. It had been a capital city of the Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties.

During the Three Kingdoms it was the capital of the Kingdom of Wu lead by Sun Quan.

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