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Great Wall of China
The Great Wall stretches across northern China. The Ming dynasty constructed it in the 15th and 16th centuries to protect China against Mongol invasions from the north. Sections of the Great Wall, including this part near Beijing, have been restored.
Wolfgang Kaehler
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