Yizhou (ancient China)

Yizhou (夷洲) is the name of an island described in the account of a 230 AD (2nd year of Huanglong) Eastern Wu expedition. Most of the sailors died on the voyage but manage to bring back "several thousand" natives, probably Taiwanese aborigines, back to China.[1][2]

Citations

  1. Knapp, Ronald G. (1980). China's Island Frontier: Studies in the Historical Geography of Taiwan. The University of Hawaii. p. 5.
  2. Records of the Three Kingdoms


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