Siang-yang

English Proper noun en proper noun en Xiangyang. en 1908 w:Jeremiah Curtin The Mongols: A History https://archive.org/details/mongolshistory0000curt/ 0-938289-65-9 341 https://archive.org/details/mongolshistory0000curt/page/341/ War being decided, through his advice it was planned to begin by the siege of Siang yang on the northern bank of the Han; the possession of this city would facilitate the conquest of the great Yang tse region. on en https://archive.org/details/marcopolosstravels/ 1914 The Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian 491064633 280–281 https://archive.org/details/marcopolosstravels/page/n299/ Siang-yang is situated in the northern part of the province of Hu-kuang, adjoining to that of Kiang-nan, upon the river Han, which discharges itself into the Kiang....According to those who have written on the authority of the Chinese annals, Siang-yang was invested in 1269, and taken in 1273; whereas Hang cheu, the capital of the Song, was not summoned until 1276....The operations were directed, in the first instance, against Fan-ching, on the northern side of the Han, opposite to, and a kind of suburb of, Siang-yang, which appears from the plan in Du Halde to be in part encompassed by a bend of that river. en https://archive.org/details/greatcommanderso0000unse/ 2008 Andrew Roberts (historian) Andrew Roberts Great Commanders of the Medieval World w:Quercus Publishing 978-0-85738-589-5 163–164 https://archive.org/details/greatcommanderso0000unse/page/164/ The key to success in the south lay on the Han river, a tributary of the mighty Yangtze; it was the prodigiously strong and well-defended city of Siang-yang.