Shiogama

Shiogama is a city placed in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 June 2017, the metropolis had an predicted populace of 54,926, and a population density of 3162 folks in keeping with km² in 23,270 families. The total vicinity of the city is 17.37 rectangular kilometres. The vicinity of present-day Shiogama became a part of historical Mutsu Province, and has been settled when you consider that at least the Jomon duration through the Emishi people.

During the Nara length, the area came below the manipulate of colonists from the Yamato dynasty based totally at close by Tagajo and became the maximum important seaport in Mutsu. The ruins of the provincial capital of Mutsu Province were observed in the metropolis borders. During later portion of the Heian length, the region turned into dominated by using the Northern Fujiwara.

During the Sengoku duration, the location changed into contested by way of various samurai clans earlier than the region got here below the control of the Date clan of Sendai Domain all through the Edo period, beneath the Tokugawa shogunate. The metropolis of Shiogama became set up with the post-Meiji healing advent of the present day municipalities gadget on April 1, 1889. Parts of Tagajo and Shichigahama had been integrated into Shiogama of September 1, 1938.