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Santísima Trinidad (meaning "Holy Trinity") was a bay on the northeast coast of Square Fortresses in Taiwan
/ref> In 1661,
Santísima Trinidad (meaning "Holy Trinity") was a bay on the northeast coast of Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...
at Keelung
Keelung () or Jilong () (; Hokkien Pe̍h-ōe-jī, POJ: '), officially known as Keelung City, is a major port Provincial city (Taiwan), city situated in the northeastern part of Taiwan. The city is a part of the Taipei–Keelung metropolitan a ...
, where in 1626 the Spanish
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established a settlement and built . They occupied the site until 1642 when they were driven out by the Dutch
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. The Dutch re-shaped the Spanish fort, reduced its size and renamed it ./ref> In 1661,
Koxinga
Zheng Chenggong, Prince of Yanping (; 27 August 1624 – 23 June 1662), better known internationally as Koxinga (), was a Ming loyalist general who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century, fighting them on China's southeastern ...
, a Ming China
The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last orthodox dynasty of China ruled by the Han peo ...
loyalist, with 400 warships and 25,000 men laid siege to the main Dutch fortress ( Zeelandia in Anping). Defended by 2,000 Dutch soldiers, the Dutch left their fort in Keelung, when it became clear that no reinforcements were forthcoming from Zeelandia or Batavia (present day Jakarta
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, Indonesia).
In 1663, the Dutch returned to Keelung, retook the fort, strengthened and enlarged it and kept it until 1668, when they voluntarily gave it up, as the trade in Keelung was not what they expected it to be.
See also
* Port of Keelung *Fort Provintia
Fort Provintia or Providentia, also known as Chihkan Tower (), was a Dutch outpost on Formosa at a site now located in West Central District, Tainan, Taiwan. It was built in 1653 during the Dutch colonization of Taiwan. The Dutch, intending to ...
* Cape of San Diego
Cape Santiago is a cape on the easternmost point of the island of Taiwan, located in the Gongliao District, New Taipei City.
History
On 5 May 1626, a Spanish fleet reached the northeast tip of Taiwan and named the native village of Caquiunaua ...
* Eternal Golden Castle
The Eternal Golden Castle (), alternatively but less well known as Erkunshen Battery (), is a defensive castle in Anping District, Tainan, Taiwan.
History
The castle was built in 1874 and completed on 1876 by the famous Qing official Shen Bao ...
* History of Taiwan
The history of the island of Taiwan dates back tens of thousands of years to the earliest known evidence of human habitation. The sudden appearance of a culture based on agriculture around 3000 BC is believed to reflect the arrival of the ances ...
* Taiwan under Dutch rule
The island of Taiwan, also commonly known as ''Formosa'', was partly under colonial rule by the Dutch Republic from 1624 to 1662 and from 1664 to 1668. In the context of the Age of Discovery, the Dutch East India Company established its presence ...
* Spanish Formosa
Spanish Formosa ( es, Hermosa Española) was a small colony of the Spanish Empire established in the northern tip of the island known to Europeans at the time as Formosa (now Taiwan) from 1626 to 1642. It was ceded to the Dutch Republic during ...
References
Bibliography
* * Dutch Formosa Spanish Formosa Historic sites in Taiwan Military history of Taiwan 1620s in Taiwan 1626 establishments in the Spanish East Indies 17th century in Taiwan Spanish East Indies {{Taiwan-geo-stub