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the time as Kiangning. The Chinese abbreviation of jiang ? for Jiangning formed the first syllable of a compound (with su from Suzhou) that was the source of the provincial name Jiangsu. As the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from 1851 to 1864, Nanjing was known as Tianjing (}}, , "Heavenly Capital" or "Capital of Heaven").

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