page_title: Cishan District
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Cishan District / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Tawian AMS Topographic Maps
context_page_description: Cishan District is a suburban district in northeastern Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
context_section_description: After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, Cishan was organized as an urban township of Kaohsiung County. On 25 December 2010, Kaohsiung County was merged with Kaohsiung City and Cishan was upgraded to a district of the city.
  In 2009, then Cishan Township was affected by Typhoon Morakot.
caption: Map of the region including Cishan (labeled as CHʻI-SHAN (KIZAN) 旗山) (1951)
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