Toyotsu (Fukuoka)
Toyotsu (Japanese豊 津 町, machi ) was a town in Miyako -gun in the Japanese prefecture of Fukuoka.
History
In Toyotsu remains were found from the Palaeolithic, the Jōmon, Yayoi and the Kofun period.
As in Toyotsu remains of buildings of the provincial administration ( Kokufu ) and the province of temples were found, it is assumed that it was the capital of the province of Buzen.
After Ogasawara Tadanobu, the daimyo of the Han ( fief ) Kokura, Kokura Castle was burned down during the war with the Han Chōshū, he moved in 1866 the feudal seat until after Kawara and 1870 Toyotsu. With the abolition of the Han on August 29, 1871 Toyotsu became the capital of the short-lived Prefecture Toyotsu that worked in the prefecture Kokura already on 25 December of the same year.
1876 Toyotsu was a battleground of the Akizuki Uprising, one of many uprisings shortly before abolished samurai caste against the government.
On April 10, 1943 in the Mura Toyotsu was (豊 津 村, -mura ) incorporated the Mura Setsumaru (节 丸 村, -mura ). The appointment to Machi was on 1 March 1955, the incorporation of parts of the Mura Haraigō (祓 郷 村, -mura ).
Toyotsu joined on 20 March 2006 with Saigawa and Katsuyama the new Miyako Machi together.
Traffic
- Street: National Road 10 to Kitakyushu or Kagoshima
- National Road 496, according to Yukuhashi or Hita
- Heichiku Tagawa - line, after Yukuhashi or Tagawa
Education
In Toyotsu are the primary schools Toyotsu, Setsumaru and Haraigō, carried by the city middle school Toyotsu, and carried by the prefecture Ikutokukan - middle and high school, are summarized in the middle and high school.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Hayama Yoshiki (叶 山 嘉树, writer )
- Sakai Toshihiko (堺 利 彦, socialist thinkers, writers )
- Place in Fukuoka prefecture
- Former church in Japan