<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><placename>  <system>China Historical GIS, Harvard University and Fudan University</system>  <license>CC BY-NC 4.0</license>  <uri>http://tgaz.fudan.edu.cn/tgaz/placename/hgr_601</uri> <spellings>    <spelling>      <written-form script="Cyrillic">Торопецъ</written-form>      <exonym-lang></exonym-lang>      <attested-by>SLOV_POLUNIN</attested-by>      <note></note>    </spelling>    <spelling>      <written-form script="Cyrillic">Торопец</written-form>      <exonym-lang></exonym-lang>      <attested-by>SLOV_POLUNIN</attested-by>      <note></note>    </spelling>    <spelling>      <transcription system="Russian Simplified ALA-LC">Toropets</transcription>      <exonym-lang></exonym-lang>      <attested-by>SLOV_POLUNIN</attested-by>      <note></note>    </spelling>  </spellings>  <feature-type>    <name>город</name>    <alternate-name>городъ</alternate-name>    <transcription>gorod</transcription>    <translation lang="en">town</translation>  </feature-type>  <temporal>    <begin>1785</begin>    <begin-rule>4</begin-rule>    <end>1796</end>    <end-rule>4</end-rule>  </temporal>  <spatial>    <object-type>POINT</object-type>    <xy-type>point</xy-type>    <latitude-direction>N</latitude-direction>    <degrees-latitude>56.49779</degrees-latitude>    <longitude-direction>E</longitude-direction>    <degrees-longitude>31.63528</degrees-longitude>    <geo-source>http://www.geonames.org/482042</geo-source>    <present-location> Toropets, Tver Oblast, Russia    </present-location>  </spatial>  <historical-context>    <part-of-relationships>      <part-of parent-id="hgr_259" from="1785" to="1796" >        <parent-name>Торопецкий уезд</parent-name>        <transcribed-name>Toropetskii uezd</transcribed-name>      </part-of>    </part-of-relationships>    <subordinate-units>    </subordinate-units>  </historical-context>  <data-source>HGR</data-source>  <source-note>    <![CDATA[      ТОРОПЕЦЪ, съ 1777 году городъ Псковскаго Намѣстничества. Въ немъ случается въ году одна указная ярмарка въ Iюлѣ мѣсяцѣ въ пятокъ, предъ праздникомъ Пророка Иліи, на которую по большей части съѣзжаются крестьяне изъ ближнихъ деревень съ мѣлочнымъ крестьянскимъ товаромъ и рукодельемъ.    ]]>  </source-note>  <source-uri>    http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4583201;view=1up;seq=115  </source-uri></placename>