Forbidden City (disambiguation)
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The phrase Forbidden City can refer to:
- The Imperial palace in Beijing. The Forbidden City (Zijincheng) is also known as Gugong (Imperial Palace)
- The city of Lhasa in Tibet.
- The city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
- The city of Harar, an eastern city in Ethiopia.
- The city of Smara or Semara is a city in Western Sahara.[1]
- The palace known as the Imperial City in Huế is known as the Purple Forbidden City in Vietnamese.
- The New York City World Trade Center site, which was given this name by photographer Joel Meyerowitz.
- A fictional place, featured in the book Tarzan and the Forbidden City by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
- The Forbidden City (nightclub), a famous Asian-themed cabaret in San Francisco
- A fictional place; the city that Malthazaard resides in Arthur and the Minimoys.
- A novel written by William E. Bell.
[edit] References
- ^ Jean and Michel Vieuchange, Smara, the Forbidden City: Being the Journal of Michel Vieuchange While Travelling Among the Independent Tribes of South Morocco and Río de Oro, Ecco Press, 1987.