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Anjo

Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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About Anjo

Anjo is a town in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As of May 2015, the city had an envisioned population of 183,217 and a populace density of 2,130 humans per km2. The total location was 86.05 square kilometres 33.22 squaremi. The region of gift-day Anjo has been continuously occupied on account that preshistoric times. Archaeologists have located numerous stays from the Japanese Paleolithic duration and burial mounds from the Kofun duration.

During the Nara period, the location changed into assigned to historic Hekikai County, and changed into divided into several shoen all through the Heian period, largely under the manipulate of the Fujiwara extended family or the Taira clan. However, in the Kamakura duration, elements of the territory got here underneath the control of the Jodo Shinshu sect, who challenged the secular authority of the numerous samurai clans, most considerably the Matsudaira clan.

During the Sengoku length, severa fortifications had been erected inside the area. Tokugawa Ieyasu unified the region and destroyed the strength of the Jodo Shinshu sect in the Battle of Azukizaka 1564. During the Edo length, 1/2 of gift-day Anjo turned into controlled by using Okazaki Domain and the alternative half of by means of Kariya Domain with some scattered portions of tenryo territory dominated directly by the Tokugawa shogunate in between.

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