Koxinga
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Zheng Chenggong, also romanized in Taiwan as Cheng Cheng-kung, born Zheng Sen and better known internationally by his honorific title Koxinga, was a Southern Ming general who resisted the Qing conques
The Portrait of Koxinga, mid-17th century
Zheng Chenggong statue in Xiamen, Fujian, China. The granite statue is 15.7 m tall and weighs 1617 tons.
Extent of territory held by Koxinga (red), sphere of influence (pink) during his 1655-1659 campaigns
Image of Koxinga Temple in Tainan
History of Taiwan
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The history of the island of Taiwan dates back tens of thousands of years to the earliest known evidence of human habitation. The sudden appearance of a culture based on agriculture around 3000 BC is
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Statue of Chen Di in Lianjiang County
Chinese depiction of Chikan (Fort Provintia), 1752
Bird's eye view of Fort Zeelandia in Dutch Formosa in the 17th-century
Depiction of a Chinese man, woman, and soldier, by Georg Franz Müller (1646–1723)