Kiryu

Kiryu is a town located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of February 2015, the city had an predicted populace of 114,924, and a populace density of 419 humans consistent with km². Its standard region is 274.45 km². During the Edo length, maximum of the area of present-day Kiryu turn out to be part of the tenryo shielding below the direct control of the Tokugawa shogunate in Kozuke Province, other than the economic middle and temple city of Kiryu-shinmachi, stated for sericulture for the reason that Nara duration, which changed into a part of Shonai Domain of Dewa Province.

The place additionally prospered from its vicinity on the Kiryū and Watarase rivers. Modern Kiryu Town became created inside Yamada District, Gunma Prefecture on April 1, 1889 with the creation of the municipalities machine after the Meiji Restoration. It come to be raised to town fame on March 1, 1921. Kiryu annexed the neighboring village of Sakaino on April 1, 1933 and village of Hirosawa on April 1, 1937. The town elevated in addition with the annexation of Umeda, Aioi and part of Kawauchi village on October 1, 1954.