| Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory 膠州灣租借地 (Chinese) | |||||||||
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| Colony of the German Empire | |||||||||
| 1898–1914 | |||||||||
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 Contemporary German map of Kiautschou | |||||||||
| Capital | Tsingtau | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• 1912 | 552 km2 (213 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1912 |
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| Government | |||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||
• 1898–1899 | Carl Rosendahl (first) | ||||||||
• 1911–1914 | Alfred Meyer-Waldeck (last) | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Leased to Germany | 6 March 1898 | ||||||||
| 7 November 1914 | |||||||||
• Returned to China | 10 December 1922 | ||||||||
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| Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory | |||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 膠州灣租借地 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 胶州湾租借地 | ||||||||||
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| German name | |||||||||||
| German | Kiautschou | ||||||||||
The Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory[a] was a German leased territory in Imperial and Early Republican China from 1898 to 1914. Covering an area of 552 km2 (213 sq mi), it centered on Kiautschou Bay (Jiaozhou Bay) on the southern coast of the Shandong Peninsula. The administrative center was at Tsingtau (Qingdao). It was operated by the East Asia Squadron of the Imperial German Navy. The Russian Empire resented the German move as an infringement on Russian ambitions in the region.
- ^ Keltie p. 895
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