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    Hirado (平戸市, Hirado-shi) is a city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 June 2024[update], the city had an estimated population of 28,172, and...
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    Híradó (or often M1 Híradó for clarity, means News Station or M1 News) is the main news program of MTVA, the Hungarian public broadcaster. It was broadcast...
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    Hirado Castle (平戸城, Hirado-jō) was the seat of the Matsura clan, the daimyō of Hirado Domain, of Hizen Province, Kyūshū. It is located in present-day...
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    Dutch erected their factory at Hirado, Nagasaki, on 20 September. They preserved the "trade pass" (Dutch: handelspas) in Hirado and then Dejima for next two...
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  • Hirado is a city in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Hirado may also refer to: Híradó, a Hungarian news program Hirado Island, the island in Nagasaki Prefecture...
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    The Hirado Bridge (平戸大橋, Hirado Ō-hashi) is a suspension bridge in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It connects the islands of Hirado and Kitamatsuura Peninsula...
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    Hirado Domain (平戸藩, Hirado-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was centered around Hirado Castle in what is now the city of Hirado, Nagasaki...
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  • Hirado Island (平戸島, Hiradoshima) (also previously named Hiranoshima and Firando Island) is the 4th largest island in Nagasaki Prefecture, located in the...
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    allowed to trade relatively freely. At its maximum, the Hirado trading post (平戸オランダ商館, Hirado Oranda Shōkan) covered a large area. In 1637 and 1639 stone...
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    Hirado ware (Japanese: 平戸焼, Hepburn: hirado-yaki) is a type of Japanese porcelain mostly made at kilns at Mikawachi, Sasebo, Nagasaki, and it is therefore...
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    JS Hirado (MSO-305) is the second ship of the Awaji-class minesweepers of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). Awaji was laid down on 10 April...
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    Matsuura, was a medieval and early modern Japanese samurai family who ruled Hirado Domain in Hizen Province on the island of Kyushu. They started as a group...
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  • have been named Hirado: Japanese cruiser Hirado was a Chikuma-class cruiser launched in 1911 and struck in 1940 Japanese escort ship Hirado was an Etorofu-class...
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    Shinchi Chinatown Ōura Church Sōfuku-ji Suwa Shrine Urakami Cathedral Hirado Hirado Castle Sakikata Park Sasebo Huis Ten Bosch Kujūku Islands Tenkaihō Takayuki...
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    The Hirado Dutch Trading Post (平戸和蘭商館, Hirado Oranda shōkan ato) was a trading base of the Dutch East India Company on the island of Hirado, Nagasaki...
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    Hirado (平戸) was the third and final vessel built of the Chikuma-class protected cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Hirado had two sister ships, Chikuma...
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    Nakaenoshima (中江ノ島) is an uninhabited island 2 km off the coast of Hirado, Japan. It is located in the East China Sea. During Japan's ban on Christianity...
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    transmission of the Shingyōtō ryu school. Seizan was born in Edo, at the Hirado-han (Hirado domain) residence, as the oldest son of Matsura Masanobu (1735–1771)...
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    Shichizaemon (田川七左衛門), a vassal of Hirado Domain. She was a Japanese who lived most of her life in the coastal town of Hirado, then later migrated to China...
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    Kishū Tokugawa. Hirado Castle Hirado Castle : Observation tower Hirado Castle : Jizosaka tower Hirado Castle : North Tiger Gate Hirado Castle stands on...
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    competitors. The first VOC trading outpost in Japan was on the island of Hirado off the coast of Kyūshū. Permission for establishing this permanent facility...
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    Ikitsuki Bridge is a continuous truss bridge that connects Ikitsuki to Hirado Island. Completed in 1991, it has a main span of 400 meters (1,300 feet)...
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    attacked two Portuguese trade vessels that had shunned Matsura's port in Hirado and had gone instead to trade at Fukuda (now within Nagasaki), a port belonging...
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    mother was Matsura Aiko (1818–1906), the 11th daughter of the daimyō of the Hirado domain, Matsura Seizan. She was born in Kyoto and entered service of the...
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    (1565–1624) was the head of the British East India Company trading post in Hirado, Japan, between 1613 and 1623, from its creation until its bankruptcy and...
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    within the borders of the Saikai National Park. Nagasaki Prefecture Hasami Hirado Kawatana Matsuura Ojika Saikai Saza Saga Prefecture Arita Imari The climate...
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    Retrieved 29 July 2014. Delakorda Kawashima, Tinka (2017). "Landscape in Hirado revealing the secrets of Hidden Christians' life-world: National and global...
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    able to gain permission from the ruler to establish a commercial house in Hirado on the Japanese island of Kyushu: We give free license to the subjects of...
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    Ikitsuki, Nagasaki (category Hirado, Nagasaki)
    access was available through bridges connecting Hirado Island with the mainland and Ikitsuki Island to Hirado. The dialect of Ikitsuki can be difficult to...
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  • chief factor of the East India Company missions in Bantam, Indonesia and Hirado, Japan. Saris was born to a family in South Yorkshire in 1579 or 1580. His...
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