Beijing

Beijing is the caipital o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae. The ceety is kent as Peking an aw. It's locatit in the nor'east o the kintra.
300px|thumb|The Forbidden Ceety, hames tae the Emperors o the Ming an Qing Deenasties.

The ceity o Beijing haes played a gey important pairt in the oncome o Cheenae. Mony fowk fae ither ceeties an kintras haes flittit tae Beijing tae leuk for wark. Near-haund 15 meellion fowk bides thare. In 2008 Beijing hostit the Olympic Gemmes.

Beijing haes a kenspeckle history. Syne the Jin deenasty, Beijing's been the caipital for mony deenasties, sic as the Yuan, Ming, Qing, an ithers forby. Thare's mony places o historic interest in Beijing. Thir places includes the Simmer Pailace, the Temple o Heiven, an the Great Waw o Cheenae.

 Name 
Beijing means "the northren caipital" in the Cheenae leid. It wis ance a coonterpairt tae Nanjing, "the soothren caipital", durin the Ming Deenasty. This deenasty gied Beijing its name.

 History 
The middle o Beijing wis settelt in the 1st millennium BC. In thae days, the Kinrick o Yan (?) set up thair caipital whaur Beijing is the day. Thay cried it Ji (?). Efter the Kinrick o Yan wis malafoustert, the ceity becam wee-er, awtho it wis still an important place.

Beijing becam mair important again in the 10t century, whan the Jin deenasty set its caipital thare. This ceity wis malafoustert bi Mongol arimies in 1215. Then in 1267, Mongols biggit a new ceity on the north lip o the Jin caipital, an cried it "Great Caipital" (??). That wis the beginnin o modren Beijing. Whan Kublai Khan, the Mongolian monarch, set up the Yuan deenasty, this ceity becam his caipital.

The Yuan, Ming, an Qing deenasties aw uised Beijing as thair caipitals. Whan the Qing deenasty tint pouer an the Republic o Cheenae wis establisht, the new Republic muived its caipital fae Beijing tae Nanjing. Whan the communists claucht pouer an estaiblisht the Fowk's Republic, Beijing becam the caipital o Cheenae ance again.

Internaitional relations

Twin touns — sister ceeties
Beijing haes numerous twin touns an sister ceeties aroond the warld, mony o them the caipitals o thair respective kintras:Paris and Rome are "partner cities" due to an exclusive agreement between those two cities.

 Tokyo, Japan (1979)
 Belgrade, Serbie (1980)
 New York Ceety, Unitit States (1980)
 Lima, Peru (1983)
 Washington D.C., Unitit States (1984)
 Madrid, Spain (1985)
 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1986)
 Île-de-France, Fraunce (1987)
 Cologne, Germany (1987)
 Algiers, Algerie (1989)
 Amman, Jordan (1990)
 Ankara, Turkey (1990)
 Cairo, Egyp (1990)
 Jakarta, Indonesie (1992)
 Riga, Latvie
 São Paulo, BrazilPrefeitura.Sp – Descentralized Cooperation  Islamabad, Pakistan (1993)
 Bangkok, Thailand (1993)
 Buenos Aires, Argentinae (1993)
 Kiev, Ukraine (1993)
 Seoul, Sooth Korea (1993)
 Amsterdam, Netherlands (1994)
 Berlin, Germany (1994)
 Brussels, Belgium (1994)
 Hanoi, Vietnam (1994)
 Moscow, Roushie (1995)
 Gauteng (Johannesburg an Pretoria), Sooth Africae (1998)
 Ottawa, Canadae (1999)
 Canberra, Australie (2000)
 Athens, Greece (2005)
 Bucharest, Romanie (2005)
 Budapest, Hungary (2005) Havana, Cuba (2005)
 Manila, Philippines (2005)
 Addis Ababa, Ethiopie (2006)
 Astana, Kazakhstan (2006)
 Helsinki, Finland (2006)
 Lunnon, Unitit Kinrick (2006)
 Tel Aviv, Israel (2006)
 Wellington, New Zealand (2006)
 Lisbon, Portugal (2007)
 Tirana, Albanie (2007)
 Doha, Qatar (2008)
 Santiago, Chile (2008)
 San José, Costa Rica (2009)
 Caracas, Venezuela (2010)
 Dublin, Ireland (2011)

Pairtner ceeties
Beijing haes twa pairtner ceeties, baith in Europe:
  Paris, Fraunce (1997)
  Roum, Italy (1998)

References


Category:Caipitals in Asie
Category:Host ceeties o the Simmer Olympic Gemmes
Category:Independent ceeties
Category:Municipalities o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae