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The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire, Thomas H. Reilly, page 2, University of Washington Press, ISBN 978-0-295-80192-6 a derivative of File:China 1820 de.svg Author
His forces drove the Taipings from their entrenched positions, despite greater rebel numbers. A week later, after a return march, Ward's forces struck at the city of Guangfulin, occupied by over 20,000 Taiping troops, just five miles from Ward's own headquarters. Ward, at the head of five hundred men, attacked the city without artillery support.
The Larut War occurred around Taiping and Matang. The first railway in the Malay states was constructed here, connecting Taiping with Kuala Sepetang , formerly Port Weld. Larut, Matang and Selama is also the place where the first modern town, museum and hill station were built in Perak as Taiping was the capital of the Federated Malay States ...
Taiping (256–258), era name used by Sun Liang, emperor of Eastern Wu; Taiping (409–430), era name used by Feng Ba, emperor of Northern Yan; Taiping (485–491), era name used by Yujiulü Doulun, khan of Rouranro; Taiping (556–557), era name used by Emperor Jing of Liang; Taiping (617–622), era name used by Lin Shihong
Other sources of foreign names transferred to the U.S. are the Bible and ancient history. Biblically sourced names are widespread and are sometimes the result of naming a settlement after its church. Names from ancient history can also be found in a number of places, although a concentration of them can be found in upstate New York.
The place who first found bijih timah is named Kelian Pauh (now the vicinity of Taiping Prison) . Kelian mean mine or mines, while Pauh is a tiny mango fruit. Kelian Pauh is the old name for the town of Taiping. In 1840, Long Jaafar has brought in three people of Chinese miners to start mining work in Kelian Pauh (Taiping).
Taiping was the capital for the districts of Larut, Matang and Selama in Perak. Before 1937, Taiping was the capital of the state of Perak and the centre of a long and drawn out war resulting in a change of rulership for the state. Taiping used to be known as Klian Pauh – Klian meaning mine while Pauh is a type of small mango. Taiping town.
Maps of the New World had been produced since the 16th century. The history of cartography of the United States begins in the 18th century, after the declared independence of the original Thirteen Colonies on July 4, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War (1776–1783). Later, Samuel Augustus Mitchell published a map of the United States ...