Fùxīn

The Fuxin country lies between the Liao River plain and the steppe lands farther northwest. Under the Liao dynasty, Khitan nobles founded a number of fortified towns in this region, including Yizhou and Chengzhou. Their sites show the scale of settlement in a frontier landscape where farming and pastoral communities met. The old walls and towers preserve traces of the Liao's presence long before the later name Fuxin came into use.