Qingdao
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- Names
Qingdao
Tsingtao
Ch'ingtao
Tsingtau
Ch'ing-tao
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Occupied by Germany 1897; leased to Germany for 99 years 1898; besieged by Japanese & British 1914; occupied by Japanese until 1922 & again 1938-1945; became US naval headquarters after World War II; industrialized under Communist rule after 1949.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); Times Atlas of World History (1993); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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