Niutongdao

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View of the main port over the Channel of Jindao from Baihua Shrine on Yanhui Island in the 1900s

Niutongdao (Simplified Xiaodongese: 牛通道; Niú tōngdào, Traditional Xiaodongese: 牛通道), also historically known as Niutongtao, Nieoutongtao or Nieou T'ongtao was a city and port on the north coast of Jindao that was the city's historic main port under the administration of Gaullica and later military administration of Heavenly Xiaodongese Empire during the Great War until it was mostly destroyed by targeted Senrian air raids in the early 1930s. It was one of Jindao's four ancient Sizhi or Seutche, along with Huangcaoyuan, Tananao and Nancha, and was the last still standing before its destruction. It was the oldest of the Sizhi, settled by Yao Jin in the 3rd century. Today, Niutongdao is mainly forested over, but several museums and monuments exist where the city once stood commemorating the city and the victims of its bombing.

Name

Niutongdao comes from the Xiaodongese for "path for cattle", and was a rural farming town that served both as residency and a commuter settlement for farmers taking their cattle west to graze.

History

Niutongdao was likely settled by Yao Jin during Jindao's short-lived Yao dynasty around the 280s. Its location made it both ideal for seafaring trade with the Bashurat civilisations through the Bay of Bashurat as well as a good fort location, situated at the bottom of small mountains and later able to be bombarded from the nearby Yanhui Island. Niutongdao grew stadily as a small port on Xiaodong's north coast and often complimented trade with the port city of Lunkeng, also on the north coast.

Niutongdao grew to an estimated population of around 35,000 by 1900, and its development was excessively helped along by Gaullica, who wished to transform it into a global port handling trade from the Gaullican Empire in Coius. Niutongdao also saw an influx of Baean immigrants during the early 20th century.

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