Dom João

English Etymology From en pt Dom João. Pronunciation dõ zhwã′õ Proper noun dom João en historical en former island district/Xiangzhou prefecture-level city/Zhuhai p/Guangdong c/China that became part of Hengqin. en 1910 Francis J. Bacchus Macao w:The Catholic Encyclopedia https://archive.org/details/catholicencyclop0009char/ IX New York w:Robert Appleton Company 2112032 482 https://archive.org/details/catholicencyclop0009char/page/482/ 1 The Catholic being the state religion of Portugal, the prisons and the five government hospitals at Macao and in Portuguese Timor are all open to the ministrations of Catholic priests and sisters; three of these hospitals have chaplains of their own. The government also maintains on the islands of Coloane and Dom João, near Macao, two leperhouses, which are frequently visited by missionaries and sisters. en 1989 Richard Louis Edmonds Geography and Geology Macau https://archive.org/details/macau0000edmo/ 105 w:Clio Press 1-85109-090-8 21593107 9 https://archive.org/details/macau0000edmo/page/9/ Today, Ilha Verde and Taipa are administered by Portugal whereas the other territories discussed in these papers are under Chinese administration. In the prologue to the paper concerning Dom João (Xiaohengqin Island), the author indicates that he was preparing similar papers concerning Coloane and Tai-Vong-Cam (Dahengqin) Islands. en 2016 Geoffrey C. Gunn Timeline Wartime Macau: Under the Japanese Shadow https://books.google.com/books?id=Axq2DgAAQBAJ w:HKU Press 978-988-8390-51-9 962005606 194 https://books.google.com/books?id=Axq2DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA194 1937 (3 December) Memorandum on boundaries of Macau relating to Lapa, Dom João and Vong Cam (Montanha) signed between consul for Portugal and consul for Japan in Hong Kong. en June 14, 2019 Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese https://web.archive.org/web/20230916185341/https://www.macaubusiness.com/portuguese-japanese-and-chinese/ 16 September 2023 https://www.macaubusiness.com/portuguese-japanese-and-chinese/ Macau Business Perhaps it would have been simpler if, like Taipa and Coloane, the Portuguese had physically merged Macau with two other islands: Montanha and Dom João (Xiao Hengqin and Da Hengqin, in Cantonese, with Montanha known as Tai Vong Cam).The most curious thing: this small, economically more valuable part corresponds almost entirely to the landfill that in the 90’s linked the two islands, which means that the original land of Montanha and Dom João was mostly hilly and unsuitable for real estate development (as the images in these pages show).For a short time, two years later, the Japanese expelled the Portuguese, and at the end of World War II, Montanha and Dom João passed definitively to the Chinese side (in 1938, a Portuguese-language newspaper published in Macau tells us that General Chiang-Kai Chek proposed a landfill connect the two islands . . .). en 21 November 2021 On Chinese islands next to Macau, great stories of pirates, typhoons and war played out https://web.archive.org/web/20260309012552/https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3156715/chinese-islands-next-macau-great-stories-pirates 9 March 2026 https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3156715/chinese-islands-next-macau-great-stories-pirates w:South China Morning Post 1563-9371 648902513 It’s hard to imagine now, but there were once three mountainous, verdant islands between Macau and mainland China. The Portuguese named them Dom João, Montanha and Lapa. Later the islands became known in Chinese as Xiao (Little) Hengqin, Da (Big) Hengqin and Wanzai, respectively.The two Hengqins, which faced Coloane and Taipa, were eventually joined by land reclamation to form a single island while Wanzai, a mere few hundred metres from Macau’s Inner Harbour (Porto Interior), saw its inclines levelled enough to become a peninsula. en Translations island Chinese: Cantonese: yue Mandarin: cmn 小橫琴 Japanese: ja Korean: ko Portuguese: pt Dom João See also en Hengqin, en Montanha Further reading Dom João