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2 unusual facts about Yilan County


Hyojong of Joseon

150 Joseon musketeers, along with 3,000 Manchus, met Russian army at the Battle of Hutong (Hangul : 호통 Hanja : 好通), present-day Yilan), which was won by the Qing-Joseon allied forces.

Yilan

Yilan County, Heilongjiang (依兰县), a county of central Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China


Dongshan River Water Park

Dongshan River Water Park, established in 1993, is a park located in Wujie, Yilan County, Taiwan, on the shores of the Dongshan River.

Jhongli Station

Jhongli Station (Yilan County):A railway station along Taiwan Railway Administration Yilan Line.

Jianzhou Jurchens

In 1388, the Hongwu Emperor established contact with three tribes of the Ilan Tumen area (the confluence of the Mudanjiang River and the Sungari River), the Odori, Huligai (Hūrha or Hurka) and Tuowen and attempted to enlist them as allies against the Mongols.

Luodong Bo-ai Hospital

Luodong Bo-ai Hospital (also spelled Bo'ai) (Chinese: 羅東博愛醫院) is in Luodong Yilan County Taiwan.

Taiwanese Hokkien

Apart from Yilan and Lugang, which still preserves the original Zhangzhou and Quanzhou accents respectively, every region of Taiwan speaks a variant of Hokkien based on a mixture of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou Hokkien.

In Taiwan, however, the Tâi-lâm (Tainan, southern Taiwan) speech is the prestige variant, and the other major variants are the northern speech, the central speech (near Taichung and the port town of Lugang in Changhua County), and the northern (northeastern) coastal speech (dominant in Yilan).


see also

Wujie

Wujie, Yilan (五結鄉), township in eastern Yilan County, Taiwan, Republic of China