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35-430: Trnje was amalgamated into the city in 1927 by Mayor Vjekoslav Heinzel , along with several other new districts, mainly for the purpose of housing people needed for Zagreb's industrial sector expansion. As a district, Trnje has an elected council. 45°47′41.29″N 15°58′45.14″E  /  45.7948028°N 15.9792056°E  / 45.7948028; 15.9792056 This City of Zagreb geography article

70-401: A central city merged with its suburbs, the amalgamated city was legally a new municipality, even if it was given the central city's name and was in effect a defacto annexation by the central city. The process created what was labeled a megacity by the media, although none of the created municipalities fit in the definition of a megacity in the international sense and some of them have fewer than

105-674: A commonly used name for the part of Wuhan urban area north of the Yangtze and Han Rivers. The name was long preserved in the name of the old Hankou Railway Station (also known as Dazhimen Station ), the original terminal of the Jinghan Railway . After the old Dazhimen station closed in 1991, the Hankou name was transferred to the new Hankou Railway Station , which opened in 1991 at a new location, farther away from central city. Railway passengers traveling to Wuhan need to purchase tickets to

140-572: A million inhabitants. In the early 1970s, the various towns, villages, and townships surrounding Metropolitan Toronto that were undergoing suburbanization were amalgamated into various new municipalities; among them Mississauga and Vaughan . Later, the provincial government of Mike Harris undertook an extensive province-wide program of municipal mergers between 1996 and 2002. The province had 815 municipalities in 1996; by 2002, this had been reduced to just 447. The list of municipalities in Ontario

175-769: A particular station: the Hankou Railway Station, the Wuchang Railway Station (near central Wuchang, on the right bank of the Yangtze), or the new Wuhan Railway Station (which opened in 2009, also on the right bank, but a long distance from the historical Wuchang). Nonetheless, Hankou is no longer the name of an administrative unit (e.g., a district ), because its area now falls mostly within Jiang'an District , Jianghan District , and Qiaokou District . That contrasts with Wuchang and Hanyang ,

210-463: A separate person in charge . Annexation is similar to amalgamation, but differs in being applied mainly to two cases: The act of merging two or more municipalities into a single new municipality may be done for a variety of reasons, including urban growth, reducing the cost of local government and improving the efficiency of municipal service delivery. In 1977, the 2,359 municipalities of Belgium were merged to 596 new municipalities. In 1975,

245-415: A sovereign entity. Unbalanced growth or outward expansion of one neighbor may necessitate an administrative decision to merge (see urban sprawl ). In some cases, common perception of continuity may be a factor in prompting such a process (see conurbation ). Some cities (see below ) that have gone through amalgamation or a similar process had several administrative sub-divisions or jurisdictions, each with

280-420: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Amalgamation (politics) A merger , consolidation or amalgamation , in a political or administrative sense, is the combination of two or more political or administrative entities, such as municipalities (in other words cities , towns , etc.), counties , districts , etc., into a single entity. This term is used when the process occurs within

315-580: Is the main port of Hubei Province and the single largest port in the middle reaches of Yangtze . The city's name literally means " Mouth of the Han", from its position at the confluence of the Han with the Yangtze River . The name appears in a Tang dynasty poem by Liu Zhangqing . Other historical names for the city include Xiakou ( 夏口 ), Miankou ( 沔口 ), and Lukou ( 魯口 ). Hankou, from

350-529: Is updated regularly. The two previously independent cities Hankou and Wuchang , as well as the county of Hanyang , were merged into one city by the name Wuhan in 1927. Wuhan was named China's first direct-controlled municipality , and briefly served as a capital of China twice, first by left-wing Nationalists , later during the Sino-Japanese War . In 1970, mergers brought the number of municipalities of Denmark from 1,098 to 277. In 2007,

385-579: The Chengdu area (part of Operation Matterhorn ). On 19 August 1945, a group of enraged Chinese civilians and soldiers massacred 26 Japanese soldiers in the Hankou reprisal massacre . The government of Vichy France relinquished the French concession in 1943, and the restored French Republic relinquished it formally in 1946. The Japanese concession came to an end with the surrender of Japan in 1945. Before

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420-695: The Ming to late Qing , was under the administration of the local government in Hanyang , although it was already one of the four major national markets ( zh:四大名镇 ) in Ming dynasty. It was not until 1899 that Zhang Zhidong decided to separate Hankou from Hanyang. Hankou was then divided into four districts, which are Juren, Youyi, Xunli, and Dazhi ( 居仁、由義、循禮、大智 ). Some of the names can still be found in modern-day Wuhan, where there are geographical names such as Xunlimen , Jurenmen, and Dazhimen. By 1900, this boom town on

455-718: The Republic of China and replace the Qing dynasty led to the involvement of Hankou in the struggle between Hubei revolutionary forces and the Qing army, led by Yuan Shikai . Although the revolution began in Wuchang with a revolt started by members of the New Army , revolutionaries quickly captured major strategic cities and towns throughout the province, including Hankou on October 12. The Qing dynasty army recaptured Hankou later, but as

490-520: The state of Guanabara and the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil were merged. The former consisted of only the territorial limits of the city of Rio de Janeiro, formerly the Federal District as Brazilian capital until 1960 when it was moved to newly built Brasília . When merged, Guanabara became the municipality of Rio de Janeiro within the new state. In geographical terms, it would seem

525-425: The (by then) 270 municipalities were consolidated into 98 municipalities, most of them the result of mergers. An ongoing series of mergers has reduced the number of municipalities of Finland from 432 in 2006 to 309 in 2021, from 2025 in 308 municipalities ( Mäntyharju merges with Pertunmaa ). Several states of West Germany carried out municipal merger programmes in the 1960s and 1970s. In Baden-Württemberg ,

560-590: The 1033 municipalities and communities of Greece with 325 new municipalities in 2011. Budapest , the capital and largest city in Hungary, was formed from the merger of the cities of Buda and Pest across the river Danube in 1873. There were mergers of administrative divisions in Indonesia. Merger of the Special Region of Surakarta into Central Java in 1946, is the only instance of provincial merger in

595-799: The 1890s), meanwhile other municipalities were restored. Thereafter, the changes to the municipal map focused mainly on the restoration and creation of new municipalities, particularly in the 20th century. Nowadays, there are 308 municipalities in Portugal . The last alteration to the municipal map, occurred in 1998, with the creation of the municipalities of Odivelas (in Lisbon district ), Trofa (in Porto district ) and Vizela (in Braga district ). In 2013, more than 1,000 parishes / freguesias were merged. Many rural municipalities of Sweden were merged in 1952;

630-472: The 19th century. In the early 19th century, the country was divided into more than 800 municipalities. In 1832, during Portuguese Civil War , a law from Mouzinho da Silveira , minister from the liberal government-in-exile (which then ruled only in the Azores ) simplified the public administration, and reduced the number of municipalities to 796. In 1836, after the liberal victory, Passos Manuel , minister from

665-751: The Chinese government as the First and the Second Special Area. In 1862, Russian tea merchants arrived in the British concession of Hankou. Russians in Hankou established four factories using assembly lines and machinery to produce brick tea, and became the city's richest industrialists in what would become the Russian concession. Early in 1927, the British concession was occupied in the course of

700-671: The Communist Revolution, Hankou was the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hankou , covering the province of Hubei. The dioceses in Wuchang , Hanyang and elsewhere in the province were subordinated to it. In the 1930s, the airports served in Hankow were Wuhan Wangjiadun Airport and Wuhan Nanhu. Wangjiadun served as a civil and military base until 2007 while Nanhu, on the other hand, shut down while Tianhe Airport opened in 1995. "Hankou" remains

735-538: The Philippines, Iloilo City is a consolidation of former towns, which are now the geographical or administrative districts consisting of: Villa de Arevalo , Iloilo City Proper , Jaro (an independent city before), La Paz , Mandurriao , and Molo . The district of Lapuz , a former part of La Paz, was declared a separate district in 2008. Portugal was one of the first countries in the world to make an enlarged modern administrative reform, particularly during

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770-750: The Third Special Area. In the 1920s and 30s, Hankou was one of the Yangtze River ports patrolled by the US Navy to maintain US interests in the area ( Yangtze Patrol .) Hankou was flooded in the 1931 China floods . Hankou was captured by the Japanese invaders in 1938 ( Battle of Wuhan ). An important logistical center, the city was heavily bombed in December 1944 by the US aircraft based in

805-587: The Yangtze was referred to as "the Chicago of China" by the media back then. In 1926, Hankou was officially established as a city, where its municipal government was built in Jianghan district . In the same year, the Northern Expedition reached Hankou, and merged Hankou with adjacent Wuchang and Hanyang to make it the seat of the national capital, Wuhan. But in 1927, when Nanjing succeeded in

840-817: The cities of Baqa al-Gharbiyye and Jatt joined to form the city of Baqa-Jatt , but the merger was dissolved in 2010. On 21 April 2018, The Negeri Sembilan state government declared of Seremban Municipal Council (MPS) and Nilai Municipal Council (MPN) were to become Seremban City Council (MBS) effective in January 2019. In November 2010, the Seven Councils of Auckland City: Auckland City Council, Manukau City Council, Waitakere City Council, North Shore City Council, Papakura District Council, Rodney District Council and most of Franklin District Council has seen amalgamated to form Auckland City Council. In

875-638: The communists arrived in Hankou on May 16. Hankou was the destination on the escape route of groups of missionaries fleeing the Boxers in the Northern provinces around 1900. The flight of some missionaries from the T'ai-yüan massacre in Shan-si is recorded in the work A Thousand Miles of Miracle in China , by Reverend A E Glover, one of the fleeing missionaries. On 10 October 1911, a revolution to establish

910-498: The country. On 18 October 1951, Adikarto Regency  [ id ] was merged into Kulon Progo Regency in the Special Region of Yogyakarta . In 2003, several administrative cities ( kota administratif ) in Indonesia were merged back to the parent regencies, due to the Government Regulation no. 33 of 2003 which removed their status. All other administrative cities had become autonomous before 2003. In 2003

945-423: The fight to be the national capital, Wuhan was returned to its original form, with Hankou being again a city by itself. This time Hankou was established as a "Special Municipality," which resembles a direct-controlled municipality in present day. Before 1949, Hankou has shifted between being a special municipality and a provincial city. In 1949, Hankou was finally merged with Hanyang and Wuchang to become Wuhan, when

980-490: The government of the Marquess of Sá da Bandeira made a profound administrative reform which reduced significantly the number of municipalities, fixing it to 351. Passos Manuel's reform followed a trend very decentralist, creating an elected municipal administration. In 1855, another series of mergers reduced the number of municipalities to 254. In the rest of the 19th century, some series of mergers occurred (particularly during

1015-624: The merger with Maroldsweisach – unsuccessfully, although Ermershausen was reconstituted as an independent municipality in 1994 – and Horgau , also in Bavaria, successfully appealed its merger with Zusmarshausen to the Constitutional Court of Bavaria ( Bayerischer Verfassungsgerichtshof ). Mergers have also taken place in the former East Germany after 1990, for example in Brandenburg in 2003. The Kallikratis Plan replaced

1050-690: The number of municipalities dropped from 3,379 to 1,110 between 1968 and 1975; in Bavaria , from roughly 7,000 to roughly 2,000 between 1972 and 1978; in Hesse , from 2,642 to 421 between 1972 and 1977; in North Rhine-Westphalia , from 2,365 to 396 between 1967 and 1975; and in Saarland , from 345 to 50 in 1974. In the Bavarian town of Ermershausen , citizens occupied the town hall to resist

1085-520: The number of them decreasing from 2,281 to 816. Another series of mergers, this time also including cities and market towns, reduced the total number of municipalities from roughly 1,000 in the early 1960s to 278 in 1974. As of 2013, Sweden has 290 municipalities. In United States politics, such a merged entity may be called a consolidated city–county . Hankou Hankou , alternately romanized as Hankow ( simplified Chinese : 汉口 ; traditional Chinese : 漢口 ; pinyin : Hànkǒu ),

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1120-643: The revolution spread throughout China, eventually the town and the province came under control of the Republic of China. Hankou used to have five foreign concessions belonging to the United Kingdom (115 acres (47 ha), est. 1862), France (60 acres (24 ha), est. 1886), Russia (60 acres (24 ha), est. 1886), Germany (100 acres (40 ha), est. 1895) and Japan (32 acres (13 ha), est. 1898). The German and Russian concessions ended in 1917 and 1920 respectively and those areas were administered by

1155-480: The revolutionary troubles that accompanied the Northern Expedition when the Chinese Kuomintang forces occupied the concession and showed no intention of withdrawing. The Chen-O'Malley Agreement of February 1927 provided for a combined British-Chinese administration of the concession and in 1929 the British concession formally came to an end. From then on it was administered by the Chinese authorities as

1190-443: The state of Rio would have incorporated Guanabara; but, as the administrative and financial resources of the former capital were significant and even larger than the rest of the state, the change was more correctly referred to as a merger ( fusão ). In Canada , the 1990s saw the forced amalgamation of several municipal entities in the provinces of Nova Scotia , Ontario and Quebec into larger new municipalities. Even in cases where

1225-451: Was one of the three towns (the other two were Wuchang and Hanyang ) merged to become modern-day Wuhan city, the capital of the Hubei province, China . It stands north of the Han and Yangtze Rivers where the Han flows into the Yangtze. Hankou is connected by bridges to its triplet sister towns Hanyang (between Han and Yangtze) and Wuchang (on the southern side of the Yangtze). Hankou

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