Xiamen 廈門

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Xiàmén 廈門

Other names include: 下門 (former written form); Amoy (old romanization of mǐnnán pronunciation)

Nearby Locations:

Southeast China Region

Xiàmén 廈門 is a port city in Fújiàn 福建 in southeast China. and in 1842 became one of the first treaty ports opened to foreign settlement.

Nanputuo Temple 南普陀寺
- The Mínnán Buddhist Seminary 閩南佛學院 was located within the temple

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

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 |placename=Xiàmén 廈門
 |historical-names=下門 (former written form); Amoy (old romanization of mǐnnán pronunciation)
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+|image=[[File:Amoy_print.jpg|300px|center|Illustration of Xiàmén, 1840s]]
 |nearby-locations=Nearby Locations:
 * Fúzhōu [[福州]]
+* Quánzhōu [[泉州]]
 * Táiběi [[台北]]
 |region=Southeast China
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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.
+'''Xiàmén 廈門''' is a port city in Fújiàn [[福建]] in southeast China. and in 1842 became one of the first treaty ports opened to foreign settlement.
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