Anping District
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Anping District is a district of Tainan, Taiwan. In March 2012, it was named one of the Top 10 Small Tourist Towns by the Tourism Bureau of Taiwan. It is home to 64,408 people according to the 2020 census. [1][2]
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Name
The older place name of Tayouan derives from the ethnonym of a nearby Taiwanese aboriginal tribe, and was written by the Dutch and Portuguese variously as Taiouwang, Tayowan, etc.[3] In his translations of Dutch records, missionary William Campbell used the variant Tayouan and wrote that Taoan and Taiwan also occur.Template:Sfnp As Dutch spelling varied greatly at the time (see: History of Dutch orthography), other variants may be seen.[4] The name was also transliterated into Chinese characters variously as Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". and Script error: No such module "Lang"..[3]
After the Dutch were ousted Template:Circa by Koxinga, Han immigrants renamed the area "Anping" after the Anping Bridge in Quanzhou, Fujian. Soon after Qing rule was established in 1683, the name "Taiwan" (Script error: No such module "Lang".) was officially used to refer to the whole island with the establishment of Taiwan Prefecture.
History
The history of Anping dates back to the 17th century, when the Dutch East India Company occupied a "high sandy down" called Tayouan and built Fort Zeelandia.Template:Sfnp The Dutch moved their headquarters to Tayouan after leaving the Pescadores in 1624.Template:Sfnp Due to silting, the islet has joined with mainland Taiwan.Template:Sfnp
Koxinga's army brought an end to the Dutch colonial period via the Siege of Fort Zeelandia.
In the Japanese period, the history of trade between China and Japan unfolded at Anping. According to the 1904 census, the city's population was 5,972.Template:Sfnp
Administrative divisions
The district consists of Jincheng, Yuguang, Jianping, Yiping, Huaping, Pingtong, Wenping, Guoping, Yuping, Yizai, Pingan, Tianfei and Wangcheng Village.[5]
Government institutions
Tourist attractions
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- Anping Old Street
- Anping Small Fort
- Anping Tree House
- Canal Museum
- Eternal Golden Castle
- Former Tait & Co. Merchant House
- Fort Zeelandia
- Haishan Hall
- Tianhou Temple
- Anping Oyster Shell Cement Kiln Museum
- Miaoshou Temple
- Yanping Street Old Well
- USS Sarsfield (aka ROCS Te Yang) museum ship
References
Citations
Bibliography
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