Madou District

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District in Tainan, Taiwan

title: "Madou District" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["districts-of-tainan", "taiwan-placenames-originating-from-formosan-languages"] description: "District in Tainan, Taiwan" topic_path: "linguistics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madou_District" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary District in Tainan, Taiwan ::

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nameMadou
native_name麻豆區
native_name_langzh-tw
official_nameMadou District
other_nameMatou, Matō
settlement_typeDistrict
image_skyline麻豆古港古航道 - panoramio.jpg
image_captionWaterway of the ancient harbor in Madou
image_mapMadou TN.svg
map_captionMadou District in Tainan City
pushpin_mapTaiwan
coordinates
subdivision_typeLocation
subdivision_nameTainan, Taiwan
area_total_km254
population_as_ofMay 2022
population_total43071
population_density_km2auto
website
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Madou District () is a district of about 43,071 residents in Tainan special municipality, Taiwan. It owes its name to the Siraya language word Mattau. Mattau was one of the four core Sirayan villages during much of Taiwan's colonial history and figured heavily in the formation of colonial policy in Dutch Formosa. Currently, it is a well-known town in Tainan for its local culinary specialties and historical sites, and has become more prosperous in recent five years due to the presence of two universities. As an example of the increased attention Madou is receiving, the New Year Countdown Night for 2006 in Tainan was held at Madou Junior High School.

History

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In the 17th century, Mattau was a village of about two to three thousand; the name was also spelled variously Matau, Mataw, Mattouw, Mathau, Matthau, Mattauw and Mandauw. Mattau was the largest and most powerful of four main aboriginal villages near Taoyuan, and had been the most troublesome for the Dutch, "massacring soldiers, destroying buildings, and uprooting crops". Located about 25 km northeast of the former Dutch base of Fort Zeelandia, the place later grew into a market-town called Moa-tau.

Republic of China

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After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, Madou was organized as an urban township of Tainan County. On 25 December 2010, Tainan County was merged with Tainan City and Madou was upgraded to a district of the city.

Administrative divisions

Guxing, Baoan, Tungjiao, Jinjiang, Xiangkou, Zhongxing, Xingnong, Xinjian, Youju, Beishi, Dacheng, Zongrong, Longquan, Nanshi, Liaobu, Xiaobei, Beitou, Dashan, Haipu, Zhuangli, Gangwei, Makou, Antung, Anye, Anxi, Xiean, Zhongmin, Anzheng and Zhuanjing Villages.

Education

Tourist attractions

Specialty

Shaddock (Citrus maxima) is one of the specialty foods of Madou. Being harvested around the time of mid-autumn, it is associated with the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Madou Farmer's Association holds a beauty contest named for the shaddock every year.

Notable natives

References

References

  1. "Madou Township".
  2. (1903). "Formosa under the Dutch: described from contemporary records, with explanatory notes and a bibliography of the island". Kegan Paul.
  3. Andrade, Tonio. (2005). "How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century". Columbia University Press.

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