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'''Tiananmen Square''' ([[Simplified Chinese|Simplified]]: 天安门广场; [[Traditional Chinese|Traditional]]: 天安門廣場; Meaning: "Gate of Heavenly Peace") is a large plaza in [[Beijing]], found to the south of the [[Forbidden City]]. It was built during the [[Ming Dynasty]], at the same time as the Forbidden City.
'''Tiananmen Square''' ([[Simplified Chinese|Simplified]]: 天安门广场; [[Traditional Chinese|Traditional]]: 天安門廣場; Meaning: "Gate of Heavenly Peace") is a large plaza in [[Beijing]], found to the south of the [[Forbidden City]]. It was built during the [[Ming Dynasty]], at the same time as the Forbidden City.
[[File:Tianmen.jpg|thumb|350px|Tiananmen (T'ien-an Men, or Gate of Heavenly Peace) Square marks the southern exit from the Forbidden City. Here is where democracy demonstrators were shot down in 1989]]
==Sites Near the Square==
==Sites Near the Square==
*Great Hall of the People
*Great Hall of the People
See the article [[Tiananmen Square massacre]].
See the article [[Tiananmen Square massacre]].
[[Category:China]]
[[Category:History of China]]