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  Formosa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Formosa, Argentina, the capital of its namesake province
Formosa may also refer to a fictional country located on the island of Taiwan, but whose culture was invented by George Psalmanazar as a hoax.
Formosa is also a surname found in the Maltese Islands.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Formosa   (149 words)

  
 Republic of Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The new movement claims that the current situation of Taiwan being ruled by a government officially named the Republic of China creates confusion internationally with China, and is the principle obstacle in preventing Taiwan from becoming a normal nation, in the sense of participating in international organizations such as the United Nations.
Opponents of a Republic of Taiwan claim that rejecting the name Republic of China would almost certainly trigger a war with the People's Republic of China and that both the Republic of China and the concept of China have a grand history and culture from which Taiwan should not separate itself.
While many believe the formal declaration of a Republic of Taiwan would likely trigger a military response from the People's Republic of China, some among the independentists believe such a response would be ineffective with or without subsequent involvement by the United States.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Republic_of_Taiwan   (900 words)

  
 Democratic Republic of Taiwan, 1895   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Unfortunately, it was not well organized and poorly prepared for the upcoming of the Japanese occupying troops, thus, this short-lived "republic" lasted for only 13 days (May 25 to June 7 of 1895).
When they decided to declare independence, a flag of "a yellow tiger on a blue field" was adopted as the national flag of the new country.
In the Karl Farchinger archives there is reported a flag used by the Republic of Formosa under the president Tang, in 1845.
flagspot.net /flags/tw-1895.html   (320 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Formosa
Formosa is a placename which comes from the Portuguese word meaning beautiful.
Formosa is the capital city of Formosa Department, Formosa Province, Argentina.
See also: Formosa Magazine, Republic of Formosa Formosa Magazine (『美麗島』雜誌 Pinyin: Meilidao Zazhi) was a magazine created by Tangwai individuals in Taiwan during the summer of 1979.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Formosa   (461 words)

  
 Formosa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Formosa is a (additional info and facts about placename) placename which comes from the (The Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil) Portuguese word meaning beautiful.
Formosa, Virginia, (The army of the United States of America; organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare) USA
Formosa may also refer to a (additional info and facts about fictional country) fictional country located on the island of Taiwan, but whose culture was invented by (additional info and facts about George Psalmanazar) George Psalmanazar as a (Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage) hoax.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/formosa.htm   (256 words)

  
 Taiwan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The earliest Chinese settlements on Taiwan began in the 7th cent., chiefly from the mainland provinces of Fujian and Guangdong.
China’s seat in the United Nations was taken away from the Republic of China and given to the People’s Republic in 1971.
The United States established formal diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China on Jan. 1, 1979, which necessitated the cutting of its defense ties with Taiwan.
www.bartleby.com /65/ta/Taiwan.html   (2045 words)

  
 Formosa, Argentina: Formosa City
Formosa is situated on a flat land with a slight dip to the east where there are estuaries and gorges that favour the growth of forests and meanders due to the water in excess.
Formosa is a dinamic and modern city with thick woods that come across the tourist at any time.
The main attractions in Formosa City are the sober style of the Government House, the front of the Cathedral called "Nuestra Señora del Carmen", the tannin factory and the river resort by Paraguay River where an interesting practice of sport fishing is allowed.
www.welcomeargentina.com /formosa/index_i.html   (365 words)

  
 Confidential U.S. State Department central files. Formosa, Republic of China, 1950-1954 / [edited by Michael Davis]
Formosa, Republic of China, 1950-1954 / [edited by Michael Davis].
Four years later the Nationalists fled to Formosa and established the Republic of China, a government dominated by the Kuomintang and determined to maintain its rights to the mainland.
The State Department Central Files on Formosa provide outstanding coverage of political, military, socio-economic, and foreign affairs from 1945 through 1954: the rule of Chiang Kai-shek, military preparations and operations against Communist China, relations between the native majority and the "mainlanders," economic reorganization, the crisis over Quemoy and Matsu, and U.S. assistance.
www.lib.monash.edu.au /microform/5861.html   (176 words)

  
 Chapter 22 of Kerr's "Formosa Betrayed"
The "smallness" of Formosa and the lack of experienced leadership are sometimes cited to belittle Formosan appeals for autonomy.
Joshua Liao happened to be in Shanghai and Thomas was on Formosa when the uprising took place, putting an end to their dreams of local political education, reform, and reunion with China through federal arrangement.
They remembered that in the 1920's the Japanese police on Formosa had slapped Lim's face in public in an attempt to humiliate him, they had fined him, jailed him and persecuted his associates in an attempt to silence reasonable appeals for representative forms of government and political equality for the Formosan people.
www.pinyin.info /books/formosabetrayed/chap22.html   (6560 words)

  
 A Taste of Freedom Chapter 1: My Formosan Heritage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Formosa was used to buy off the Japanese armies prepared then to march to Peking after defeating the Chinese forces in Manchuria.
The nominal commander-in-chief of the Japanese forces was an imperial prince and despite the elaborate precautions taken to protect this exalted personage, he, too, died at Tainan of malaria and dysentery contracted on the march southward.
At that time in Formosa, the Japanese were a self-conscious minority of about 300,000 ruling a population of about 4,000,000, and no one could conceal the differences between the two groups.
www.formosa.org /betrayed/peng/free1.htm   (8867 words)

  
 Search Results for "Taiwan"
Taiwan Island nation in the Pacific Ocean near the mainland of southern China; seat of the Republic of China.
The Republic of China (Taiwan, Nationalist China) (See Dec. 8) 1950 The Nationalist government in Taiwan at last began to introduce some of the reforms it had...
2,632,863), N Taiwan, capital of Taiwan and provisional capital of the Republic of China.
bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Taiwan   (280 words)

  
 Chapter 18 of Kerr's "Formosa Betrayed"
Formosa was not the sprawling continent with its many unmanageable regional problems; here was a compact island, physically well organized, technologically well advanced, and susceptible to a very tight security control.
I think this is a situation he could not have dreamed of when he promised to give Formosa to "The Republic of China" (not to the "People's Republic of China"), apparently not paying any consideration to the will of the 6 million people living on the island.
Since the shape of Formosa, as seen on the map, looks somewhat like that of a foot-ball, probably the people living on the island are predestined to be kicked around in the game of world politics.
www.romanization.com /books/formosabetrayed/chap18.html   (4962 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Republic of Taiwan Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Table of contents 1 Historical: Republic of Formosa 1.1 Presidents of the Republic of Taiwan 2 Proposed State: Republic of Taiwan Historical: Republic of Formosa The Republic of Formosa was a short li...
The Republic of Formosa (臺灣民主國) was a short lived republic that existed on Taiwan in 1895, between the removal of Qing forces and the establishment of Japanese control of the island following the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
The Republic of Taiwan (臺灣共和國; Taiwanese: Tâi-oân Kiōng-hô-kok) is a goal of Taiwan independence in creating a Taiwanese state unambiguously separate from China, covering (at most) the areas currently controlled by the Republic of China (i.e., Taiwan, Penghu, Quemoy and Matsu Islands).
www.ipedia.com /republic_of_taiwan.html   (182 words)

  
 U.S. Department of State. Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files. Formosa: Internal Affairs, 1945-1949 & ...
Formosa, Republic of China: Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs, 1950-1954.
Four years later the Nationalists fled to Formosa and established the Republic of China, a goverment dominated by the Kuomintang.
Formosa, Republic of China: Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs, 1950-1954 [Guide].
www.library.utoronto.ca /robarts/microtext/collection/pages/usdepts3.html   (179 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Taiwan (Taiwan Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Taiwan[tI´wAn´] Pronunciation Key, Portuguese Formosa, officially Republic of China, island nation (1995 est.
Together with many nearby islets, including the Pescadores and the island groups of Quemoy and Matsu, it forms the seat of the Republic of China.
The provisional capital is Taipei; Nanjing, on mainland China, is regarded as the official capital of the republic.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/Taiwan.html   (182 words)

  
 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Taiwan @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
TAIWAN [Taiwan], Portuguese Formosa, officially Republic of China, island nation (1995 est.
The provisional capital is Taipei ; Nanjing, on mainland China, is regarded as the official capital of the republic.
In 1991, Lee ended emergency rule, and all the members of the national assembly, many of whom were mainland delegates originally elected in 1947, stepped down.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1E1:Taiwan&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (2092 words)

  
 FAPA - Library
They found a beautiful island inhabited by tribes of Malayo-Polynesian people (aborigines.) The beauty of the island was coined by the Portuguese with the phrase "Isla Formosa" (beautiful island) upon their arrival in the 16th century.
In China, the ending of dynastic rule and the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC) in 1911 led to a civil war from the 1920s to 1949 between the Kuomintang (KMT) Nationalists under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Communists under Mao Tse-tung.
By 1949, the KMT was forced to flee completely from China and transferred its headquarters to Taiwan where it vowed to "recover the mainland." Mao established the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the same year, and both sides started claiming to be the legitimate rulers of China and Taiwan.
www.fapa.org /generalinfo/Taiwan's_history.htm   (1473 words)

  
 Taiwan -The Formosa
The leaders of Republic of China, (Free China) hoped someday that the communists will be driven out of China.
Formosa, on the other hand, was called by the Portuguese sailors in the 1600s.
The government of the Republic of China has some similarities to the government of the United States.
www.geocities.com /Tokyo/7031/taiwan.htm   (2670 words)

  
 FR Doc 05-125
1960), finding in favor of the government that Formosa was a country for purposes of removal because it had a government that had ``undisputed control of the island,'' is also not dispositive of the current issue.
The court simply addressed the question of whether, as espoused by the government, Formosa was a country under the predecessor to section 241(b) of the Act based on the facts of the case, and the court ruled in favor of the government.
In Matter of Linnas, the main question before the Board was whether the offices of the Republic of Estonia in New York City constituted a country for purposes of removal and whether the alien could therefore be removed to those offices.
a257.g.akamaitech.net /7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/05-125.htm   (10704 words)

  
 Everything Marshall Islands :: http://www.yokwe.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A draft summary of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Social and Economic Report 2005, states that conditions are worsening in the small Pacific nation, and the status quo is not sustainable.
Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Minister of Resources and Development John Silk told the Journal that any legitimate business, whether a citzen or a non-citizen owned, "will be treated equally" and denied that the government was considering any "leverage" to protect indigenous businesses.
The total annual contributions that accrue to the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) by virtue of the continued operations of USAKA/RTS is approximately $44,220,720, according to the US Ambassador to the Marshall Islands.
www.yokwe.net   (2379 words)

  
 Taiwan
The Republic of China today consists of the island of Taiwan, an island 100 mi (161 km) off the Asian mainland in the Pacific; two off-shore islands, Kinmen (Quemoy) and Matsu; and the nearby islets of the Pescadores chain.
Taiwan was inhabited by aborigines of Malayan descent when Chinese from the areas now designated as Fukien and Kwangtung began settling it in the 7th century, becoming the majority.
The UN seat representing all of China was held by the Nationalists for over two decades before being lost in Oct. 1971, when the People's Republic of China was admitted and Taiwan was forced to abdicate its seat to Beijing.
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0108020.html   (951 words)

  
 Theology Today - Vol 21, No. 3 - October 1964 - EDITORIAL - The Church In the World
Here pilgrims come from all over the world to look in reverent silence for the name of a loved one who died, or was lost, in one of the most fiercely fought campaigns in the history of warfare.
The Filipino names outnumber all other nationals; and the citizens of this Republic are proud to have been counted as partners in a contest which ruined their country in many ways, but preserved for them their lovely island-home and their freedom.
This tropical Republic consists of over 7,000 islands, many of which are not yet named.
theologytoday.ptsem.edu /oct1964/v21-3-editorial3.htm   (1667 words)

  
 CARE TAIWAN ASSOCAITION
¡@Since 1624, Taiwan has been colonized by one foreign power after another.¡@From the Dutch Eastern Indian Company to Koxinga regime to the Ching Dynasty to the Republic of Formosa to the Japanese Empire to the Chiang Regime.¡@Of these six regimes, one is European, another Japanese, and the remainders, Chinese.
¡@ Because the Chiang regime is still competing with the Peoples's Republic of China ("PRC") in their territorial claims of Taiwan, Taiwan remains to this day under the yoke of foreign rules.¡@Doubtless to say, foreign rulers take more interest in pursuing their own interest than listening to the voice of the Taiwanese people for self-determination.
Republic of Formosa, the phony, though the first, "domocratic" nation in Asia;
cta.yam.org.tw /cta35.htm   (361 words)

  
 AskPhil -- Stamp Collecting starts here.
Kabard(ino)-Balkaria, Republic of: Jan.14, 2002: illegal labels, purporting to be stamps, Russian Federation report to the UPU; not valid for postage.
Köztársaság: (Hung.) "Republic" overprint on stamps of Hungary, Nov. 16, 1918; first issue of the republic made from the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Kuzey Kibris Turk Cumhuriyeti: (Turk.) Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
www.askphil.org /b25k.htm   (4726 words)

  
 AskPhil -- Stamp Collecting starts here.
Federated Republic of Soviets in Russia: in Russian, used as an overprint for Imperial Russian consular tax stamps in 1922 applied to mail sent from Russia to Germany; see Deruluft.
Forwarder's handstamp: a postal marking indicating passage to and from one country to another, used in the Venetian Republic by Austria in1797, may be first usage.
Fremont, Republic of: label for house boat on the left bank of the ship canal in Oregon.
www.askphil.org /b25f.htm   (9193 words)

  
 China defeats US & Taiwan while invading Formosa!! [Free Republic]
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Even if the PLA Navy (PLAN) can move troops to landing sites and ports, and even if the PLA Navy and Air Force were able to achieve air control over the Taiwan Strait, there remain several other aspects of PLA naval operations against Taiwan to consider.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38869f1a6289.htm   (2039 words)

  
 History7
Yuan Shih-kai elected president of the Chinese Republic (1913).
Tientsin falls to the Communists; Chiang Kai-shek retreats to Formosa; Communist People’s Republic proclaimed under Mao Tse-tung (1949).
The People’s Republic of China was forced to finalize the consolidation of the many forms of its medicine in order to present a "unified" school of thought to the foreigners.
www.angelfire.com /ca6/asi/history7.htm   (537 words)

  
 The Unknown Taiwan - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On June 1, 1895, Taiwanese opponents of Japanese rule proclaimed the establishment of Asia’s firsts republic, the republic of Formosa.
In 1991, reformers overthrew the Ch’ing Dynasty and established the republic of China.
Taipei became the "temporary capital" of the "Republic of China," which now consisted of Just Taiwan, the Pescadores, and a few smaller islands off the coast of Fukien and in the South China Sea.
www.cwcmf.org /taiwan/html/chap3_history.html   (3572 words)

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