Chang-chia, Salar pa-kun, Gansu, China (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

Referenced In

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"the Chang-ngan suburb of the city of Singanfu"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"The eight kiun constituting the Salar pa-kun are … Chang-chia, …"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"Now I will tell you of another city called Suju. Note 1.—Both the position and the story which follows identify this city with Chang-chau."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"but I observe that on the portage road between Chang-shan and Yuh-shan there are stone pillars inscribed 'Highway (from Che-kiang) to Eight Provinces…"

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"But Mr. Phillips, in his paper on Changchow, the Capital of Fuhkien in Mongol Times, asserted that by Chincheo modern Spaniards and Portuguese designated (not T’swan-chau but) Chang-chau, a great city 60 miles W.S.W. of T’swan-chau, on a river entering Amoy Harbour."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"Dr. Douglas assures me that the cut at p. 245 is an excellent view of the entrance to the S. channel of the Chang-chau River, though I derived it from a professed view of the mouth of the Chinchew River."