12) Bo Hai. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...An inlet of the Yellow Sea on the northeast coast of China west of the Shandong and Liaodong peninsulas....

13) 1895, April 17. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
...recognized the full "independence" of Korea; ceded to Japan the Pescadores, Taiwan, and the Liaodong peninsula; paid an indemnity of 200 million taels; opened four...

14) Bohai. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...N China; bordered by Shandong, Hebei, and Liaoning provs. and Tianjin Municipality; the Liaodong Gulf is its northeast extension. The Huang He (Yellow River) empties...

15) Liao. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Mongolia and flowing east then south through the fertile Liao alluvial plain to the Gulf of Liaodong. The eastern branch, its main tributary, joins it at the Jilin-Liaoning...

16) Yellow Sea. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...China and Korea. It has a maximum depth of 500 ft (152 m). Bohai, Korea Bay, and the Liaodong Gulf are its major inlets. The Huang He, Huai, Liao, and Yalu rivers...

17) Shimonoseki, Treaty of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and for the cession to Japan of Taiwan, the Pescadores islands, and Port Arthur and the Liaodong peninsula. Japan also imposed a large indemnity and forced China...

18) Sino-Japanese War, First. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...declared Korea independent and provided for the cession of Taiwan, the Pescadores, and the Liaodong peninsula by China to Japan. China also had to pay a large indemnity....

19) Manchuria. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and Tumen rivers, and from Mongolia by the Da Hinggan (Great Khingan) Mts. It includes the Liaodong peninsula. Until 1860 it included territory now in Siberia and...

20) Liaoyuan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...It was the capital of Liaobei prov. from 1945 to 1949; from 1949 to 1954 it was part of Liaodong prov....