Aigun
Aigun ( Chinese 璦琿 / 瑷珲/爱珲 , Pinyin Àihún ; Manchu : Aihūn hoton ), actually Aihui ( Chinese 爱辉镇 , Pinyin Aihui Zhen ), is a large village in the district Aihui the prefecture-level city of Heihe in the northeastern Chinese province of Heilongjiang . The place is known by different names and spellings and is today on the right bank of the Heilong Jiang (Amur) in northern Manchuria . The large community has an area of 211 km² and approx. 11,800 inhabitants (end of 2009).
history
The place used to be known as "Saghalien Ula hoton" ( Manchurian : sahaliyan ulai hoton, Chinese : 黑龍江 城Pinyin : Hēilóngjiāng chéng ). The city was first founded on the left bank of the Heilong Jiang, below the mouth of the Seja tributary , but was abandoned. The New Town was founded in 1684 during the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty .
Aigun and Russia
In May 1858 the Treaty of Aigun was signed in old Aigun between the Russian Governor General of Eastern Siberia Nikolai Muravjow-Amurski and the Chinese Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Army Yishan , in which large areas on the left side of the Heilong Jiang were ceded to Russia .
During the so-called Boxer Rebellion in 1900, Aihui was the scene of a military operation against the Russians for a few weeks ( 瑷 珲 保卫 战 , Àihuī baowei zhàn ).
Neustadt
Since 2001, the "site of the New Town of Aigun" ( 瑷 珲 新城 遗址 , Àihuī xīnchéng yizhi ) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (5-480) .
Administrative structure
The large community of Aihui consists of 16 villages. These are:
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See also
Web links
- Aihui municipality in the Chinese place-name network (Chinese)
- ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Aihui xincheng yizhi ) (Chinese: PDF; 28 kB)
Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ N , 127 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E