○ During the next settlement by the Dutch and the different periods of people coming to China, the aborigines left the low land to the hills and mountain, and became the mountain people.
The 17th century
○ The islands most recent history goes back to 1590, when the first western spotted the island, and Jan Huygens Van Linschoten, a Dutch navigators on a Portuguese ship, exclaimed "llha Formosa" (meaning "Beautiful Island"), which become its name four hundred years.
○ The islands most recent history goes back to 1590, when the first western spotted the island, and Jan Huygens Van Linschoten, a Dutch navigators on a Portuguese ship, exclaimed "llha Formosa" (meaning "Beautiful Island"), which become its name four hundred years.
○ Interesting enough, the most complete historical records on Taiwan go back 350 years, to the time of the Dutch occupation, 1624-1662. When the Dutch East indies Company came to Formosa, they found only the aborigine population on the island: there was no evidence or sight of Chinese organization of the island including any governmental system. Therefore, from that evidence at that time Taiwan was not part of China. As is seen on the map on above, Taiwan/Formosa was shown with different color.
○ On a small peninsula on the southwest coast of Formosa, a fort was established by the Dutch called Zeelandia, named after the Dutch province of Zeeland. The peninsula was called Tayouan, meaning terrance bay. This later evolved into Taiwan, and came to be the name for the whole island.