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( Pescadores)
The Pescadores (traditional Chinese ????; Tongyong Pinyin Pénghú Cyúndao; Hanyu Pinyin Pénghú Qúndao; Wade-Giles P'eng-Hu Ch'ün-Tao&_160;; Pe?h-oe-ji Phên-ô·-kûn-tó, from Portuguese, "fishermen", pron. IPA&_160;[p??.k?.'ðo.???]) are an archipelago off the western coast of Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait consisting of 90 small islands covering an area of 141 square kilometers. They are administered as Penghu County, Taiwan. "P'eng-hu" was first recorded in unofficial historical records and regional logs in 1171 during the Southern Song Dynasty[citation needed]. From the middle of the 17th century to 1895, Formosa (Taiwan) and the Pescadores (Penghu) were ruled by pirates, the colonial Dutch Empire, the Koxinga kingdom, and the Qing Dynasty (Manchu), successively. The Pescadores were captured by the French in March 1885, in the closing weeks of the Sino-French War, and evacuated four months later. The Pescadores Campaign was the last campaign of Admiral Amédée Courbet, who died at Magong on 11 June 1885. The Qing Dynasty then ceded these islands to Japan in 1895 in the Sino-Japanese Treaty of Shimonoseki along with Taiwan.
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