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DescriptionMing Empire cca 1580 (en).svg
English: Ming Empire cca 1580.
Mote, Frederick W.; Twitchett, Denis, eds. (1998). The Cambridge History Of China, Volume 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part I. ISBN978-0-521-24332-2. Map 1, p. xxiv.
Brook, Timothy (2010). The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Harvard University Press. ISBN978-0-674-04602-3. Map 6, p. 41.
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