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Fortress Hill
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English
Etymology
Named after a nearby fortress.
Proper noun
Fortress Hill
en area district/Eastern sar/Hong Kong.
en 4 February 2016 Kris Cheng 50 construction workers occupy Fortress Hill road in protest over unpaid wages w:Hong Kong Free Press https://archive.ph/KFetZ https://hongkongfp.com/2016/02/04/50-construction-workers-occupy-fortress-hill-road-in-protest-over-unpaid-wages/ 8 June 2025 Business, Hong Kong, Politics & Protest Around 50 construction workers occupied a road in Fortress Hill on Thursday in a protest over unpaid wages.
en September 15, 2019 Mike Ives; Elaine Yu Hong Kong Protesters March Again, Defying the Police https://web.archive.org/web/20190915090004/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/15/world/asia/hong-kong-protest.html 15 September 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/15/world/asia/hong-kong-protest.html Asia Pacific https://archive.ph/uvhOt At one point on Saturday, scuffling broke out in the Fortress Hill neighborhood of Hong Kong Island near the site of a vandalized Lennon Wall.New clashes between civilians erupted Sunday night in Fortress Hill and nearby North Point.
en 27 December 2019 Young democrats shake up Hong Kong politics w:Reuters https://web.archive.org/web/20191223234755/https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/young-democrats-shake-up-hong-kong-politics https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/young-democrats-shake-up-hong-kong-politics December 23, 2019 https://archive.ph/YdBjz Pro-democracy candidates won four out of five seats in the district, up from one in the last election. In the adjacent Fortress Hill neighborhood, they added another two.
Translations
area in Hong Kong
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 炮臺山
Mandarin: cmn 炮臺山
Further reading
Fortress Hill