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* Fúzhōu [[福州]] | * Fúzhōu [[福州]] | ||
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Xiàmén 廈門
Other names include: 下門 (former written form); Amoy (old romanization of mǐnnán pronunciation) |
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Xiàmén 廈門 is a port city in southeast China and in 1842 became one of the first treaty ports opened to foreign settlement.
Important Buddhist Sites
Other Notes
References and Resources
- Amoy - Environs 1915, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin
- [Amoy] Hsia-Men 1945, Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin
![[Amoy] Hsia-Men 1945](http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/china_city_plans/txu-oclc-6573019.jpg){kind=link}