Formosa

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim Synonym of Taiwan: an island of East Asia.

   “The Iſland Formoſa, or the fair Iſland doth alſo belong to this Province ; as likewiſe the near adjacent Iſland called Teiwan, which the Hollanders poſſeſs, who have built a Fort there called new Zealand.”

2. özel isim A prefecture of Fujian, China (Qing Empire) (1683–1885).
3. özel isim A province of China (Qing Empire) (1885–1895).

   “A new broom is not more active for reform than this new governor-general is in the new province of Formosa.”

4. özel isim A dependency of Japan (1895–1945).

   “Except for the relatively unimportant Ryukyu Islands, which were acquired earlier, Formosa is Japan's oldest colony. She acquired it out of her war with China in 1894, and during recent years was believed to have fortified it heavily.”

5. özel isim A province of Taiwan (Republic of China) (from 1945).

   “General Chiang Kai-Shek was also very prominent in the start of the uprising, but later defected and was forced out of the country to the Province of Formosa, now called Taiwan.”

6. özel isim A claimed province of China (People's Republic of China or mainland China) (from 1949).

   “If we should propose an exchange of ambassadors, Mao Tse-tung would surely ask if our recognition extended to Communist sovereignty over the 'Province of Formosa.'”

7. özel isim A city in Goiás, Brazil.
8. özel isim An island of the Bissagos Islands, Guinea-Bissau.
9. özel isim A city in northern Argentina.
10. özel isim A department of Argentina around the city.
11. özel isim A province of Argentina around the city.
12. özel isim A surname from Maltese.