Travels Of Marco Polo: Eighty One

Cinghianfu [1]is a city of Manji, and the people are such as we have already described, idolaters and the subject of great Khan.  They are artificers, merchants, hunters, raise much grain, make clothes of silk, and gold. Here are two churches of Nestorian Christians, formed in the year 1278; which happened because at that time the governor under the Khan was a Nestorian named Marsarchis, and he caused the two edifices to be built.  Now let us go to the great city of Cinghingui.

____________________________________1. Cinghianfu: It is the modern day city of Xian or Chang'an, in the province of Shaanxi.