Tamsui District
Tamsui (Chinese淡水 区, pinyin Dànshuǐ Qū, Tongyong Pinyin Danshuei Cyu, PEH oē - jī Tām-súi/Tām-chú ), often also written Tanshui, Tamsui or Tamsui, is a district of the city of New Taipei in northern Taiwan with good 140,000 inhabitants. The earlier Hùweǐ (Chinese沪 尾) or Hobe ( Taiwanese ) mentioned place is located northwest of Taipei at the mouth of the Tamsui River (Chinese淡水河) in the Formosastraße.
History
From 1629 to 1641 Tamsui was occupied by the Spaniards. The 1629 built by them Fort Santo Domingo is still one of the city's attractions. From 1867 to 1972 resided on the site of the British Consulate.
1641 attacked the Dutch at the Fort, which then fell on August 3. After the expulsion of the Spaniards the harbor stood for several years under the rule of the Dutch and the Dutch East India Company ( Dutch: Vereenigde Dutch East India Company, abbreviated as VOC or VOC). The present name of the fort, Hong Mao Cheng recalls the Dutch rule (红毛 城, literally: the Fort of redheads ). However, they left in 1661 after losing to Zheng Chenggong ( Koxinga ), also Taiwan.
After the Treaty of Tianjin in 1860, the Chinese government opened the port for foreign trade. From 1862 regular duties were collected. Exports were mainly tea, camphor wood, sulfur and carbon. Trading companies in many Western countries settled in Tamsui; the place was a gateway for Western culture in Taiwan and experienced a period of prosperity.
1872 met the medical missionary Dr. George Leslie Mackay in Tamsui, where he opened the first Western hospital and schools.
Middle of the 19th century was the most important port Tamsui Taiwan, but the importance of place as a port declined in the 20th century due to heavy siltation, and subsequently took over the role as the main port of Keelung in the north. The population turned back stronger agriculture and fishing, but due to good infrastructure projects which had carried out the Japanese colonial rulers, the place to a local center of administration and culture was.
Under the Republic of China Tamsui was an independent township (镇, zhen ) until the town was incorporated as a borough in the newly founded city of New Taipei on December 25, 2010. Tamsui is the northern terminus of the Tamsui Line of the Taipei Metro and a popular tourist destination.
Culture and Education
In Tamsui there are two universities, namely the Tamkang University (淡江 大学, founded in 1958 ) with 814 full-time teachers and 27 711 students and the Aletheia University (真理 大学, founded in 1965 ) with 256 full- time teachers and 12,630 students. (2004 )
The Aletheia University has emerged from the former founded by Mackay Oxford College, the first Western College in Taiwan.