Budai, Chiayi
Encyclopedia
Budai is an urban township
in Chiayi County
, Taiwan
. Its industry is mainly made up of fishery. http://www.budai.gov.tw/en/en_index.php It was the site where Japanese forces landed and completed the encirclement of Tainan during the Japanese Invasion of Taiwan
in 1895.
Township
The word township is used to refer to different kinds of settlements in different countries. Township is generally associated with an urban area. However there are many exceptions to this rule. In Australia, the United States, and Canada, they may be settlements too small to be considered urban...
in Chiayi County
Chiayi County
Chiayi County is a county in southwestern Taiwan surrounding but not including Chiayi City. Its historical name in Taiwanese Hokkien derives from Tsirosen in the Formosan languages...
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
. Its industry is mainly made up of fishery. http://www.budai.gov.tw/en/en_index.php It was the site where Japanese forces landed and completed the encirclement of Tainan during the Japanese Invasion of Taiwan
Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895)
The Japanese invasion of Taiwan was a conflict between the Empire of Japan and the armed forces of the short-lived Republic of Formosa following the Qing Dynasty's cession of Taiwan to Japan in April 1895 at the end of the First Sino-Japanese War...
in 1895.