Note 86: Inez de Beauclair, "Dutch Beads in Formosa?".    From Wordnik.com.  [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference

Yet the future of Formosa is a matter of concern to us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Canada Have An Independent Foreign Policy?] Reference

The dome of Santa Maria Formosa is destroyed in a major earthquake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Veniceblog:] Reference

Richardson, W.J. "Early Missionary Activity in Formosa, 1624 – 1662.".    From Wordnik.com.  [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference

Wheeler stayed in Formosa aboard a British cruiser until the last of his men was evacuated.    From Wordnik.com.  [A MAN SENT FROM GOD] Reference

Boxer, C.R. "The Siege of Fort Zeelandia and the Capture of Formosa from the Dutch, 1661 – 1662.".    From Wordnik.com.  [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference

It appeared that nearly all the Chinese colonists in Formosa believed the rumors about Chenggong's plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference

Japan maintained recognition of the regime in Formosa it was impossible to establish diplomatic relations with Peking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Peace Prize 1974 - Presentation Speech] Reference

On a different note, sometimes I wonder why Taiwan doesn't just use the name Formosa instead of Taiwan for some of the business names.    From Wordnik.com.  [There they go again] Reference

From here, we call it Formosa, the Chinese call it Taiwan, planes fly over the mainland on photographic missions, mapping future targets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Nationalism Old and New] Reference

Note 49: See, for example, the testimony that soldiers who served in Formosa gave in the Corcuera case, AGI, Escribanía 409B, 159 – 67.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference

"Deer Hunting in Formosa under the Dutch Occupation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference

96 (Borao Mateo, Spaniards in Formosa, 285 – 87). back.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference

Does it predate Chiang Kai-shek when Taiwan was still known as Formosa?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Future Government Sign] Reference

They also decided that the soldiers that van der Laan had brought should stay in Formosa.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference

Periodically he visited hospital with the burning feet that had tortured him and so many others in Formosa.    From Wordnik.com.  [A MAN SENT FROM GOD] Reference

Thirty-nine years ago Mr Lu, a citizen in the days when Taiwan was known as Formosa, came to Birkdale and finished second to Lee Trevino.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

What if I was born in Formosa?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Israel Bans Arab Parties] Reference

40 Batavia reluctantly gave in, and gambling remained illegal in Formosa. 41.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference

Those who remained in Formosa carried on.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference

We are all from Taiwan, a beautiful island once called "Formosa" by the Portuguese in the 16th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [XOOPS CMS (Content Management System)] Reference

Korea, Formosa (Taiwan), and southern Sakhalin Island.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2007 CIA World Factbook] Reference

It occupied Korea, Formosa (Taiwan), and southern Sakhalin Island.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

Formosa, where they erected a fort, which they named Fort Zealand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference

He spent his days sipping Formosa oolong in his mother's apartment.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MAN BEHIND A BEAUTIFUL MIND] Reference

In Formosa, however, they differ so much from the simplicity of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference

China, Formosa, and Japan, and is a fiber of increasing importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

In the stormy waters of the Formosa channel, where the monsoons raise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference

Off the east of Formosa, and during the middle watch, the ships of the squadron were caught aback in a sudden squall.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

The Loo-Choo group of islands lies in the North Pacific, and forms a semi-circle, extending from Japan to the island of Formosa.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

Taiwan conventional long form: none conventional short form: Taiwan local long form: none local short form: T'ai-wan former: Formosa.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference

In 1955 Congress declared the president "authorized to employ" forces "as he deems necessary" for protecting Formosa and the Pescadores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once Again, Ike Was Right] Reference

Country name: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Taiwan local short form: T'ai-wan local long form: none former: Formosa.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference