was a
village
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located in
Higashikubiki District,
Niigata Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan. Niigata Prefecture has a population of 2,227,496 (1 July 2019) and is the List of Japanese prefectures by area, fifth-largest prefecture of Japan by geographic area ...
,
Japan
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.
The village was established in 1901 by merging Kawabe, Kawakami, and Kunimi Villages. Maki had a population of 2,940 as of January 1, 2003.
On January 1, 2005, Maki, along with the town of
Yasuzuka, the villages of
Ōshima and
Uragawara (all from
Higashikubiki District), the towns of
Itakura
is a town located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 14,323 in 5717 households and a population density of 340 persons per km². The total area of the town is . Itakura's animal mascot is the catfish. It is ...
,
Kakizaki,
Ōgata and
Yoshikawa, the villages of
Kiyosato,
Kubiki,
Nakagō and
Sanwa (all from
Nakakubiki District), and the town of
Nadachi (from
Nishikubiki District), was merged into the expanded city of
Jōetsu.
The city of Joetsu maintains the within the grounds of the , a park containing ''
kofun
are megalithic tombs or tumuli in Northeast Asia. ''Kofun'' were mainly constructed in the Japanese archipelago between the middle of the 3rd century to the early 7th century CE.岡田裕之「前方後円墳」『日本古代史大辞典』 ...
'' graves dating from the late
Kofun period
The is an era in the history of Japan from about 300 to 538 AD (the date of the introduction of Buddhism), following the Yayoi period. The Kofun and the subsequent Asuka periods are sometimes collectively called the Yamato period. This period is ...
. The second floor of the museum contains exhibits relating to the history of the village.
References
Dissolved municipalities of Niigata Prefecture
Jōetsu, Niigata
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