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Anping 安平區 An-peng | |
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| Anping District | |
 Decorative walls in the back streets of Anping | |
 Anping within Tainan City | |
| Country | Taiwan |
| Special municipality | Tainan |
| Government | |
| • District chief | Lin Guo-ming (林國明)[1] |
| Area | |
| • Land | 11.07 km2 (4.27 sq mi) |
| Population (March 2023) | |
• Total | 68,465 |
| • Density | 6,185/km2 (16,020/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (National Standard Time) |
| Postal code | 708 |
| Area code | 06 |
| Website | web (in Chinese) |
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 Anping District office | |||||||||||||
| Chinese | 安平 | ||||||||||||
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Anping District is adistrict ofTainan,Taiwan. In March 2012, it was named one of theTop 10 Small Tourist Towns by the Tourism Bureau of Taiwan. It is home to 64,408 people according to the 2020 census.[2][3]
The older place name ofTayouan derives from the ethnonym of a nearbyTaiwanese aboriginal tribe, and was written by the Dutch and Portuguese variously asTaiouwang,Tayowan, etc.[4] In his translations of Dutch records, missionaryWilliam Campbell used the variantTayouan and wrote thatTaoan andTaiwan also occur.[5] As Dutch spelling varied greatly at the time (see:History of Dutch orthography), other variants may be seen.[6] The name was also transliterated into Chinese characters variously as臺窩灣,大灣,臺員,大員,大圓 and梯窩灣.[4]
After the Dutch were oustedc. 1661 byKoxinga, Han immigrants renamed the area "Anping" after theAnping Bridge inQuanzhou,Fujian. Soon afterQing rule was established in 1683, the name "Taiwan" (臺灣) was officially used to refer to the whole island with the establishment ofTaiwan Prefecture.
The history of Anping dates back to the 17th century, when theDutch East India Company occupied a "high sandy down" calledTayouan and builtFort Zeelandia.[7] The Dutch moved their headquarters to Tayouan after leaving thePescadores in 1624.[5] Due to silting, the islet has joined with mainland Taiwan.[8]
Koxinga's army brought an end to theDutch colonial period via theSiege of Fort Zeelandia.
In theJapanese period, the history of trade between China and Japan unfolded at Anping. According to the 1904 census, the city's population was 5,972.[9]
The district consists of Jincheng, Yuguang, Jianping, Yiping, Huaping, Pingtong, Wenping, Guoping, Yuping, Yizai, Pingan, Tianfei and Wangcheng Village.[10]
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The true derivation of the name "Taiwan" is actually from the ethnonym of a tribe in the southwest part of the island in the area around Ping'an. As early as 1636, a Dutch missionary referred to this group as Taiouwang. From the name of the tribe, the Portuguese called the area around Ping'an as Tayowan, Taiyowan, Tyovon, Teijoan, Toyouan, and so forth. Indeed, already in his ship's log of 1622, the DutchmanCornelis Reijersen referred to the area as Teijoan and Taiyowan.
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