Liaodong
| Liaodong | ||
 Location of the peninsula |
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| Coordinates | 40 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N , 122 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
| Waters 1 | Korea Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Gulf of Bohai | |
Liaodong ( Chinese 遼東半島 / 辽东半岛 , Pinyin Liaodong bàndǎo , W.-G. Liaotung Pantao , common German spelling Liao-Tung ) is a peninsula of the Chinese province of Liaoning , in the Yellow Sea projects and the Korea Bay to the east by the Gulf of Bohai in West separates. The Jiaodong Peninsula is located south of Bohai Road .
The ports of Lüshunkou (Port Arthur) and Dalian (Dairen) are at their head.
history
Liaodong first came under Chinese influence when the Yan state in the 4th century BC. Conquered the area of Go-Joseon . Numerous later Chinese dynasties and kingdoms ruled the region, but it was not until the Qing dynasty that it became permanently part of the Chinese core area.
The peninsula was a central scene in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894/95 and was occupied by Japan after the Chinese defeat. In the Shimonoseki Treaty , the peninsula was initially granted to Japan , but this was reversed by Russia , France and Germany after the intervention of Shimonoseki . Russia was able to prevail against the Qing dynasty, weakened by colonial pressure and the defeat against Japan, to lease the southern part of the peninsula, Kwantung , including the strategically important Port Arthur (Dalian) from China ( agreement on the lease of the Liaodong peninsula ), , with the remainder of the peninsula being a neutral zone.
In the Russo-Japanese War 1904/05, Liaodong was again a theater of war. After the Japanese victory, the Treaty of Portsmouth agreed to put Manchuria (of which Lioadong was part) back under Chinese sovereignty, but Japan succeeded the Russian lease in Liaodong, which kept the peninsula under Japanese control until 1945.
After the annexation of Manchuria by Japan in 1931 until the end of World War II, Dalian (Port Arthur) was the most important trading port of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo and owned a large colony of Japanese and Western citizens.
Individual evidence
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↑ Wikisource: Convention For The Lease Of The Liaotung Peninsula - Sources and full texts(English)
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