Eternal Golden Castle
Eternal Golden Castle | |
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億載金城 | |
Anping, Tainan, Taiwan | |
Eternal Golden Castle | |
Coordinates | 22°59′15″N 120°09′32″E / 22.98750°N 120.15889°ECoordinates: 22°59′15″N 120°09′32″E / 22.98750°N 120.15889°E |
Type | Castle |
Site information | |
Owner | Qing Dynasty (1874-1895) Empire of Japan (1895-1945) Taiwan (Republic of China) (1945-present) |
Site history | |
Built | 1874–1876 |
Built by | Shen Baozhen |
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Traditional Chinese | 億載金城 | ||||||||||||
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Erkunshen Battery | |||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 二鯤鯓砲台 | ||||||||||||
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The Eternal Golden Castle (Chinese: 億載金城), alternatively but less well known as Erkunshen Battery (二鯤鯓砲台), 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 Baozhen in order to safeguard the coast and to defend the island against Japanese invasions. This military facility saw its first action in the Sino-French war of 1884. When Taiwan was ceded to the Empire of Japan by the Qing in 1895, the Taiwanese people fought under the Republic of Formosa banner against the invading Japanese battleships from this fortress. Under Japanese control this military facility lost its value. Its value is completely lost when during the Russo-Japanese War the imperial Japanese government sold some of the fort's cannons.[1]
See also[]
- List of tourist attractions in Taiwan
- Ershawan Battery
- Fort Zeelandia
- Fort Provintia
- History of Taiwan
References[]
- ^ "Attractions > Hot Spots > Tainan City > Eternal Fortress >". Eng.taiwan.net.tw. Retrieved 2014-05-25.
Bibliography[]
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- Bender, Andrew et al. (2004). Taiwan. San Francisco: Lonely Planet.
- 1874 establishments in Taiwan
- Forts in Tainan
- Taiwan under Qing rule
- Taiwan under Japanese rule
- Castles in Taiwan
- National monuments of Taiwan
- Castle stubs
- Taiwanese building and structure stubs
- 19th-century fortifications