Xianyang

Proper noun

Xianyang

1. A prefecture-level city of Shaanxi, China.
   • The empire was divided into thirty-six ‘commanderies’. Each of these was controlled by a military and a civil governor, with an imperial inspector charged with overseeing them and reporting back to the Ch’in capital at Hsienyang.[1998, Chris Peers, “Shih Huang-Ti – The Tiger of Ch'in”, in Warlords of China: 700BC to AD1662, Arms and Armour Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62
   • Far less known, but almost as impressive, was Meng T’ien’s construction of a superhighway connecting the Chinese capital of Hsienyang (just across the Wei River from Ch’ang-an) with the newer sections of the Great Wall in Inner Mongolia.[2016, Bill Porter, “Onward [往前]”, in The Silk Road: Taking the Bus to Pakistan, Counterpoint, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 72