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The Kowloon Peninsula, commonly referred to as Kowloon, is a peninsula
Peninsula

A peninsula is a piece of Landform that is nearly surrounded by water but connected to mainland via an isthmus. Word origin: Latin paeninsula : paene, almost + insula, island....
 that forms the southern part of the main landmass in the territory of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
. Kowloon Bay
Kowloon Bay

Kowloon Bay is a Headlands and bays located at the east of the Kowloon Peninsula and north of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. It is the eastern portion of Victoria Harbour, between Hung Hom and Lei Yue Mun....
 is located at the northeast of the peninsula.

r to the establishment of the actual Kowloon
Kowloon

Kowloon refers to an urban area in Hong Kong made up of Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon, bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait in the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Stonecutters Island in the west, Tate's Cairn and Lion Rock in the north, and Victoria Harbour in the south....
 boundaries, the Kowloon Peninsula served as one of the first destination for escape during China's dynastic times. In 1287, the last emperor of the Song Dynasty
Song Dynasty

The Song Dynasty was a ruling Chinese dynasty in China between 960–1279 AD; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty....
, Emperor Bing
Emperor Bing of Song

Emperor Bing was the last Emperor of China of the Southern Song Dynasty of China. He was also known as Lord Perpetual-Nation .Born Zh?o Bing to Emperor Duzong of Song China, he was the younger brother of his predecessor, Emperor Duanzong of Song China....
 was running away from the mongol leader Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan

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The Kowloon Peninsula, commonly referred to as Kowloon, is a peninsula
Peninsula

A peninsula is a piece of Landform that is nearly surrounded by water but connected to mainland via an isthmus. Word origin: Latin paeninsula : paene, almost + insula, island....
 that forms the southern part of the main landmass in the territory of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
. Kowloon Bay
Kowloon Bay

Kowloon Bay is a Headlands and bays located at the east of the Kowloon Peninsula and north of Hong Kong Island in Hong Kong. It is the eastern portion of Victoria Harbour, between Hung Hom and Lei Yue Mun....
 is located at the northeast of the peninsula.

History

Prior to the establishment of the actual Kowloon
Kowloon

Kowloon refers to an urban area in Hong Kong made up of Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon, bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait in the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Stonecutters Island in the west, Tate's Cairn and Lion Rock in the north, and Victoria Harbour in the south....
 boundaries, the Kowloon Peninsula served as one of the first destination for escape during China's dynastic times. In 1287, the last emperor of the Song Dynasty
Song Dynasty

The Song Dynasty was a ruling Chinese dynasty in China between 960–1279 AD; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty....
, Emperor Bing
Emperor Bing of Song

Emperor Bing was the last Emperor of China of the Southern Song Dynasty of China. He was also known as Lord Perpetual-Nation .Born Zh?o Bing to Emperor Duzong of Song China, he was the younger brother of his predecessor, Emperor Duanzong of Song China....
 was running away from the mongol leader Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan

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. Taking refuge in a cave in the Kowloon peninsula, the inscription wrote "Sung Wong Toi" or "Song Emperor's Pavilion". In the 1600s, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty
Ming Dynasty

The Ming Dynasty , or Empire of the Great Ming , was the ruling Dynasties in Chinese history of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty....
, many of the Emperor
Emperor of China

The Emperor of China refers to any monarch of Imperial China reigning since the founding of the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912....
's followers also found shelter in the Kowloon peninsula to hide from the Manchu
Manchu

The Manchu people are a Tungusic peoples who originated in Manchuria . During their rise in the seventeenth century, with the help of Ming rebels , they conquered the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China until its abolition in 1911 after the Xinhai Revolution, which established Republic of China in its place....
s.

Historically speaking, the peninsula refers to the ceded territories of Kowloon
Kowloon

Kowloon refers to an urban area in Hong Kong made up of Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon, bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait in the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Stonecutters Island in the west, Tate's Cairn and Lion Rock in the north, and Victoria Harbour in the south....
 in 1860 as part of the Convention of Peking
Convention of Peking

The Convention of Peking or the First Convention of Peking is the name used for three different treaties, which were concluded between Qing Dynasty China and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Second French Empire, and Russian Empire....
, but geographically it covers the entire Kowloon south of the mountain ranges of Lion Rock
Lion Rock

Lion Rock, or less formally, Lion Rock Hill, is a famous hill in Hong Kong. It is located between Kowloon Tong in Kowloon and Tai Wai in the New Territories, and is 495 m high....
, Kowloon Peak
Kowloon Peak

Kowloon Peak or Fei Ngor Shan or Fei Ngo Shan is a tall mountain in the northeast corner of New Kowloon, Hong Kong, situated in Ma On Shan Country Park....
 and other hills.

In 1898 a resolution was passed by the Colonial Hong Kong
Colonial Hong Kong

The British Hong Kong period began in the 19th century when the United Kingdom, Netherlands, French, Demographics of Indias and United States saw China as the world's largest untapped market....
 Legislative Council
Legislative Council of Hong Kong

The Legislative Council is the unicameral legislature of Hong Kong....
 to preserve the land where some of the caves stood.

See also

  • Boundary Street
    Boundary Street

    Boundary Street is a three-lane one-way street in Kowloon, Hong Kong. It runs in the eastbound direction starting at its intersection with Tung Chau Street in the west, and ending at its intersection with Prince Edward Road West in the east, near the former Kai Tak Airport....
  • Kowloon
    Kowloon

    Kowloon refers to an urban area in Hong Kong made up of Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon, bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait in the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Stonecutters Island in the west, Tate's Cairn and Lion Rock in the north, and Victoria Harbour in the south....
  • New Kowloon
    New Kowloon

    New Kowloon is an area in Kowloon, Hong Kong, bounded in the south by Boundary Street, and in the north by the ranges of the Lion Rock, Beacon Hill, Hong Kong, Tate's Cairn and Kowloon Peak....
  • List of buildings, sites and areas in Hong Kong