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The Oxford Companion to World War II | 2001 | | Â© The Oxford Companion to World War II 2001, originally published by Oxford University Press 2001. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Formosa. So-called by the Portuguese who visited it in 1590 (Port. formosa, beautiful), this island off the China coast, with a five-million population, had been ceded to Japan by China in 1895. At the start of the China incident the Japanese launched attacks against the Chinese mainland from it, and on US air bases on Luzon (see Clark Field) at the start of the first Philippines campaign in December 1941. At the Cairo conference in November 1943 (see SEXTANT) it was pronounced that the island had been stolen from China and would be returned to it, which it was.

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Formosa former name for Taiwan, an island off the south-east coast of China where the Nationalist Chinese State was set up by Chiang Kai-shek in 1949; the name is from Portuguese and means ‘beautiful’. The literary impostor George Psalmanazar (1679?–1763) presented himself as a native of Formosa, compiling a catechism in its supposed language.

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Formosa province (1991 pop. 404,367), 27,825 sq mi (72,067 sq km), N Argentina. The city of Formosa is the capital.

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