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Anping District is a district of
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. The Dutch moved their headquarters to Tayouan after leaving the Pescadores in 1624. Due to silting, the islet has joined with mainland Taiwan.
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.
Tainan
Tainan (), officially Tainan City, is a Special municipality (Taiwan), special municipality in southern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and commonly called the "Taiwan Prefecture, ...
, Taiwan
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. 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.
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. In his translations of Dutch records, missionary William Campbell used the variant ''Tayouan'' and wrote that ''Taoan'' and ''Taiwan'' also occur. As Dutch spelling varied greatly at the time (see: History of Dutch orthography), other variants may be seen. The name was also transliterated into Chinese characters variously as , , , , and . After the Dutch were ousted by Koxinga, Han immigrants renamed the area "Anping" after the Anping Bridge in Quanzhou,Fujian
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. Soon after Qing rule was established in 1683, the name "Taiwan" () 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. The Dutch moved their headquarters to Tayouan after leaving the Pescadores in 1624. Due to silting, the islet has joined with mainland Taiwan.
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.
Administrative divisions
The district consists of Jincheng, Yuguang, Jianping, Yiping, Huaping, Pingtong, Wenping, Guoping, Yuping, Yizai, Pingan, Tianfei and Wangcheng Village.Government institutions
* Tainan City Government * Tainan City CouncilTourist attractions
* 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 * ROCS Te Yang museum shipReferences
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