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Thai anti Mountains (Taihang Mountains) of the northwestern part of the Great Wall of China, the West, was built in the southern part of West Hill Taihang Mountains, south of the Yi River. The topography arduous, it was easy to defend the enemy attack. Yan 's capital is comparable system (蓟) was militarily important city was a separate relationship with Yan's (别都) was written in the era of the Ming Dynasty "correction gunchi" (保定郡治) The era of its construction, according to the Ming Hongzhi (Ming Dynasty) years Baoding Gunji: Yan Zhao Chong of the previous Zidan heel of the rear "presumption should be in the 4th century AD Warring States Period Yanzhao. Archaeological finds and records basically. During the 4th century BC, construction of a gong (昭公) estimated that of the Warring States Period, is the city of belonged to the largest.

In 1929 archaeological excavations at the Faculty of Beijing University, began to excavate ruins of the north-south direction (to the river in the middle) due to the structure of sex was divided into east and west was revealed. The settlement as a whole had been designed in the shape of a square, where the major buildings such as palaces and royal tombs, length and width of about 4 km the main building. Province east western was a workshop for casting metal products, the castle on the east side was a private house and burial area. Castle west as a whole has been designed in the shape of trapezoidal walls, consisting of the moat and panchuk has remained until now. Iron ruins are outside of the castle remains. MakeBelieveMonster (talk) 03:09, 23 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]