was a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
located in
Nakakoma District,
Yamanashi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Yamanashi Prefecture has a population of 817,192 (1 January 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,465 km2 (1,724 sq mi). Yamanashi Prefecture borders Saitama Prefecture to the no ...
,
Japan
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.
As of 2003, the town had an estimated
population
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of 10,612 and a
population density
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of 1,291.00 persons per km
2. The total area was 8.22 km
2.
On February 20, 2006, Tamaho, along with the town of
Tatomi (also from
Nakakoma District), and the village of
Toyotomi
The was a Japanese clan that ruled over the Japanese people, Japanese before the Edo period.
Unity and conflict
The most influential figure within the Toyotomi was Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of the three "unifiers of Japan". Oda Nobunaga was a ...
(from
Nishiyatsushiro District), was merged to create the city of
Chūō.
External links
Chūō official website
Dissolved municipalities of Yamanashi Prefecture
Chūō, Yamanashi
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