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AIGUN , or AIHuN (also Sakhalyan-ula-khoto), a See also:

town of See also:China, See also:province Hei-See also:lung-kiang, in See also:northern See also:Manchuria, situated on the right See also:bank of the See also:Amur, in a fertile and populous region, 20 M. below See also:Blagovyeshchensk, where it occupies nearly 2 M. on the bank of the See also:river. There is a palisaded fort in the See also:middle of the town, inside of which is the See also:house of the fu-tu (See also:governor). Its merchants carry on an active See also:local See also:trade in See also:grain, See also:mustard, oil and See also:tobacco, and some of its firms See also:supply the See also:Russian See also:administration with grain and See also:flour. During the " Boxer " rising of 1900 it was, for a few See also:weeks, the centre of military See also:action directed against the Russians. The See also:population, of some 20,000, includes a few See also:hundred Mussulmans. The town was founded first on the See also:left bank of the Amur, below the mouth of the Zeya, but was abandoned, and the See also:present town was founded in 1684. It was here that See also:Count See also:Muraviev concluded, in May 1857, the Aihun treaty, according to which the left bank of the Amur was conceded to See also:Russia.

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