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    Spanish Formosa (Spanish: Gobernación de Hermosa española) was a small colony of the Spanish Empire established in the northern tip of the island now known...
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    The Spanish expedition to Formosa was a campaign mounted by the Spanish based in Manila, Philippines in 1626. It was the Spanish response to Dutch settlements...
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    Formosa Province (Spanish pronunciation: [foɾˈmosa]) is a province in northeastern Argentina, part of the Gran Chaco Region. Formosa's northeast end touches...
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    Formosa (Spanish pronunciation: [foɾˈmosa]) is the capital city of the Argentine province of Formosa, on the banks of the Paraguay River, opposite the...
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    (c. 1511–1830) A pre-1785 general Spanish merchant and privateering flag The Spanish Carlist Flag, from the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) up to the present...
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  • Look up formosa or Formosa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Formosa is a former name for the island of Taiwan. Formosa may also refer to: Republic...
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    the Chinese attacked, and the Dutch were driven to Taiwan (then called Formosa, meaning "beautiful island"). That year they established Fort Zeelandia...
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    The Republic of Formosa was a short-lived republic that existed on the island of Taiwan in 1895 between the formal cession of Taiwan by the Qing dynasty...
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    Additional Asian colonies included "Spanish Formosa", on the island now known as Taiwan. After the 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, conqueror...
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    presence on Formosa to trade with the Ming Empire in neighbouring China and Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, and also to interdict Portuguese and Spanish trade...
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    Dutch who had taken over the southern part of Taiwan and established Dutch Formosa. In 1640, the Dutch began contacting Han Chinese merchants for trade and...
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    century. Named Formosa by Portuguese explorers, the south of the island was colonized by the Dutch in the 17th century whilst the Spanish built a settlement...
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    The Spanish East Indies (Spanish: Indias orientales españolas) were the colonies of the Spanish Empire in Asia and Oceania from 1565 to 1901, governed...
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  • cities in the Spanish East Indies, particularly in the Philippines or Chinese trading settlements in Spanish Formosa, during the Spanish colonial era of...
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    Fort Santo Domingo (category Spanish Formosa)
    Fokien to barter with the Formosa natives." On a night in 1636, a group of local people, angered by the taxes that the Spanish governor had imposed, successfully...
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  • Battle of San Salvador (1642) (category Spanish Formosa)
    fortified Spanish settlement and its aboriginal allies in northern Formosa 1642. After six days, the battle ended in defeat for the Spanish. The Spanish defeat...
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    conquistadores (Spanish: [koŋkistaˈðoɾes], Portuguese: [kõkiʃtɐˈðoɾɨʃ, kõkistɐˈdoɾis]; lit 'conquerors') was a term used to refer to Spanish and Portuguese...
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  • Formosa is a common surname in Malta, Spain, Portugal, Spanish colonies and other Mediterranean countries. The name derives from the Latin name Formosus...
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    Santisima Trinidad (Taiwan) (category Spanish Formosa)
    rule Spanish Formosa Davidson (1903), p. 19-20. Square Fortresses in Taiwan Andrade, Tonio (2005). "Chapter 4: La Isla Hermosa, The Rise of the Spanish Colony...
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    lives. Taiwan portal History portal Pedro Yan Shiqi Kingdom of Middag Spanish Formosa Taiwan under Dutch rule Chinese: 東寧國; pinyin: Dōngníng Guó; Pe̍h-ōe-jī:...
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    of aboriginal tribes were recorded by the government of Dutch Formosa, Spanish Formosa and the Qing Empire. Research on ethnic groups of Taiwanese indigenous...
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  • Couple from Keelung, Spanish Formosa (in modern-day Taiwan) Taiwanese Aboriginal Headhunter Couple from Tamsui, Spanish Formosa (in modern-day Taiwan)...
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  • Battle of San Salvador (1641) (category Spanish Formosa)
    Spanish in 1641. As Chinese merchants brought news of the Spanish withdrawal to the Dutch, telling them that the Spanish intended to abandon Formosa altogether...
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  • Captaincy General of Santo Domingo Captaincy General of Puerto Rico Spanish Formosa Tidore Brunei Bosnia and Herzegovina Tianjin Austrian Netherlands Nicobar...
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  • 1678 1679 1660s 1662 1663 1664 1665 1666 1667 1668 1669 Dutch Formosa Spanish Formosa 1660s 1660 1661 1662 1650s 1650 1651 1652 1653 1654 1655 1656 1657...
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    West after the Dutch East India Company established its Government of Formosa in 1624. David Wright, a Scottish agent of the Company who lived on the...
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    Prehistory to 1624 Dutch Formosa 1624–1662 Spanish Formosa 1626–1642 Kingdom of Tungning 1662–1683 Qing rule 1683–1895 Republic of Formosa 1895 Japanese rule...
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    Tsukada, Matsuo (1966). "Late Pleistocene vegetation and climate of Taiwan (Formosa)". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States...
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    Retrieved 17 September 2023. Davidson, James W. (1903). The Island of Formosa, Past and Present : history, people, resources, and commercial prospects :...
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  • in the 16th century, the Spanish empire conquered new areas starting out from its Castilian core kingdom. In 1597, the Spanish (Castilian) crown lost the...
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