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Kiaochow
- Alternative form of Jiaozhou
1929, Wilson Leon Godshall, Tsingtau Under Three Flags, Shanghai: The Commercial Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 48:Some contemporaries in China state that the bay and the small city of Kiaochow were too quiet and unattractive for the officers and men of the Russian squadron, who preferred the brighter social life of other ports.
1998, David Traxel, “The Glorious First of May”, in 1898: The Birth of the American Century, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 130:Competition for pieces of China had unsettled the established relationships in the Far East. Germany’s grab of the region of Kiaochow and subsequent control of Shantung province, Britain’s occupation of Weihai, the Russian fortification of Port Arthur, and the growing strength of Japan, resulting from that nation’s victory over China in 1894, perhaps meant that a dismemberment of the great prize was beginning, and none could afford to be left out.
2022 June 27, Michael Turton, “Notes from Central Taiwan: Formosa in German colonial dreams”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 June 2022, Features, page 13:In 1897, the Germans occupied Kiaochow (Jiazhou Bay 膠州灣) in Qingdao, and finally had their port.
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