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