Toba, Mie

Toba (鳥羽市, Toba-shi) is a city located in Mie Prefecture, Japan.

As of August 2015, the city had an estimated population of 19,227 and a population density of 179 persons per km². The total area was 107.34 square kilometres (41.44 sq mi).

Geography

Toba is located on the northern half of Shima Peninsula in far eastern Mie Prefecture, facing Ise Bay of the Pacific Ocean. The area is famous for oysters and for cultured pearls. Much of the city is within the borders of the Ise-Shima National Park.

Toba administers numerous islands in the Ise Bay, the most important of which are:

Neighboring municipalities

Mie Prefecture

History

The area of modern Toba has been continuously inhabited since before the Jomon period. During the Sengoku period, the area was under the control of pirates, from whom emerged Kuki Yoshitaka (from Nakiri district) as a dominant ruler. After having dominated the local seacoasts, he established Toba as his capital and built a castle there. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, the castle became the center for Toba Domain.

Mie

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Mień

Mień [mjɛɲ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Brańsk, within Bielsk County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) west of Brańsk, 34 km (21 mi) west of Bielsk Podlaski, and 50 km (31 mi) south-west of the regional capital Białystok.

The village has a population of 610.

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Coordinates: 52°46′N 22°42′E / 52.767°N 22.700°E / 52.767; 22.700

Mie (crater)

Mie Crater is an impact crater in the Cebrenia quadrangle of Mars, located at 48.5°N latitude and 220.4°W longitude. It is 104.0  km in diameter and was named after Gustav Mie, and the name was approved in 1973 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN).

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Toba (Nova Crnja)

Toba (Serbian Cyrillic: Тоба, Hungarian: Tóba) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Nova Crnja municipality, in the Central Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Hungarian ethnic majority (84.08%) and its population numbering 691 people (2002 census).

History

The Field Marshal, Count Robert Zichy-Ferraris from the prominent Hungarian family of Zichy, established the settlement of the Toba in 1789. During the first half or 19th century, Zichy sold his property to Henry, Count of Chambord, pretender to the throne of France. Henry appointed Barron Cyril Billet as his governor. Baron Billet and his sons were managing property for approximately 50 years. During that period, they were playing important role in the social life of the region. The castle, small family residential house and Roman Catholic Church of Holy Trinity were built during that period. By the mid-19th century, settlement was known as the Great Toba, and the population of the village mostly consisted of the tobacco growers. After the death of Henry, Robert I, Duke of Parma inherited his property. After Duke's death, his son Elias of Bourbon-Parma sold the property to the Bank of Timisoara. After the World War I, whole region, which was once part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, become the part of newly formed Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Toba (tribe) (disambiguation)

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