Talk:Taitung

Early Usages

There is some non-Taiwan location called Taitung in an 1894 book [1]. There is a list in an 1896 book [2] that mentions Taitung, Taiwan. Diplomatic and missionary literature will probably have good example sentences of Taitung, Taiwan in the late 1800's, as with the examples seen at Hsinchu, Taipei and Changhua. I did a simple search of archive.org but didn't find anything yet. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 21:54, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

Datong

This seems like 大同 to me -->

• 1655, F. Alvarez Semedo, “Bellum Tartaricum”, in The History of That Great and Renowned Monarchy of China‎^[3], E. Tyler, page 293:

  This Prince paſſed by the impregnable City of Taitung; which as it is the laſt City towards the North, ſo alſo it is the Key and Bulwark of the Province of Xanſi againſt the irruption of the Weſtern Tartars; for it commands all the Souldiers which keep the many Fortifications of thoſe Quarters, where a fair Level down extending itſelf beyond that famous Wall, I mentioned heretofore, gives a fit occaſion for the incurſion of the Tartars.

--Geographyinitiative (talk) 23:37, 16 June 2021 (UTC)