Fortress Hill

English

Etymology

Named after a nearby fortress.

Proper noun

Fortress Hill

1. An area in Eastern district, Hong Kong.
   • 2019 September 15, Mike Ives, Elaine Yu, “Hong Kong Protesters March Again, Defying the Police”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 September 2019, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 2019 December 27, “Young democrats shake up Hong Kong politics”, in Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on December 23, 2019‎^[4]:

     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: 炮臺山／炮台山 (paau³ toi⁴ saan¹)

Further reading

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