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Xiamen ( Simplified: 厦门, Traditional: 廈門, Wade Giles: Hsiamen) is a coastal sub-provincial city in Fujian Province, southern China. - Area: 1565.09 km² (300 km² water)
- Population: 1,371,600 (late 2002)
- GDP per capita: ¥38567 (ca. US$4660) in 2003, ranked no 9 among 659 Chinese cities.
Xiamen is also known as Amoy internationally, which is how "Xiamen" is spoken in Northern Min, the vernacular of the provincial capital Fuzhou. In the vernacular of Xiamen, known as Southern Min, it is pronounced E-mng. The placename means "The Gate of the Grand Mansion".
1 History
The place was made Tong'an District (同安縣) in 282, a sub-entity of Jin'an Prefecture (晉安郡). In 1387, the Ming Empire used it as base against pirateThis article is about sea pirates. For other uses see Pirate (disambiguation A pirate is one who robs or plunders at sea without a commission from a recognised sovereign nation. Pirates usually target other ships, but have also attacked targets on shore.s, and was part of QuanzhouQuanzhou is a prefecture level city, located in the Fujian province of China. For English speakers, the name is pronounced as "Chwen-Joe". Colleges and Universities [National] Huaqiao University [Public] Quanzhou Normal College [Private] Yang-en Universit. KoxingaKoxinga (; pinyin: Guoxingye) is the popular name of Zheng Chenggong ( pinyin: Zheng Chenggong; WG: Cheng Ch'eng-kung; Cheng Kung) ( 1624 1662), who was a military leader at the end of the Chinese Ming Dynasty. He was a prominent leader of the anti-Qing m stationed here in 1650Events June 23 Claimant King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland arrives in Scotland, the only of the three Kingdoms that has accepted him as ruler. August 23 Colonel George Monck forms Monck's Regiment of Foot forerunner of Coldstream Guards Nove, naming it Siming Island (思明洲), or "Remembering the MingThe Ming Dynasty ( Chinese: ; Pinyin: ming chao was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, though claims to the Ming throne (now collectively called the Southern Ming survived until 1662. The dynasty followed the Yuan Dynasty and preceded the Qing", but the city was renamed by the ManchuThe Manchu manju in Manchu; ( pinyin: mnzu) in Chinese, often shortened to ( pinyin: mn)) are an ethnic group who originated in northeastern Manchuria. They conquered the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century and founded the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China unts in 1680 to Xiamen SubprefectureSubprefecture is an administrative level that is below prefecture or province. Albania There are twelve Albanian counties or prefectures, each of which is subdivided into several districts, sometimes translated as subprefectures. Examples: District of Kor. The name "Siming" was reverted after the 19121912 is a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar) Events January 1 Establishment of Republic of China. January 6 New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U. January 17 British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the Xinhai Revolution and made a county. The following it was reverted to Xiamen City. In 1949, Xiamen became a provincial city (省轄市), then upgraded to a vice-province-class city (副省級市), or a municipality. It was made a Special Economic Zone in 1980.
Xiamen was the port of trade first used by Europeans in 1541. It was China's main port in the 19th century for exporting tea. As a result, the Amoy dialect had a major influence on how Chinese terminology was translated into English and other European languages. For example, the words "Amoy", " tea" (茶), "cumshaw" (感謝), " ketchup", " satay", " Pekoe" (白毫) originated from the Amoy dialect.
Xiamen was one of the five Chinese treaty ports opened by the Treaty of Nanjing (signed in 1842) at the end of the First Opium War between Britain and China.
