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Amoy dialect of Hokkien in Xiamen. "Peking" is carried over from the d'Anville map which also came from older texts, such as Italian Jesuit Martino Martini's [[De Bello Tartarico Historia]] (1654) and [[Novus Atlas Sinensis]] (1655). In Nanking syllabary, the city is Pehking. The irregular oo in "Soochow" is to distinguish this city from Xuzhou in northern Jiangsu. The other postal romanizations are based

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