Kwantung Leased Territory
rendered as ) from 1898 to 1905. After the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, Japan occupied the Kwantung Leased Territory and renamed the city after the Chinese name for Dalian Bay () - a name in use since at least 1879. English-language sources called the city "Dairen" in this period (1905-1945), from Japanese.