Italian concession of Tianjin
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| Status | Colony of the Kingdom of Italy | ||||||||||
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• Colony administered by Italy | 1901-1943 | ||||||||||
• The Imperial Japanese Army invades and occupies the Italian concession, later transferring it to the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China. | 1943 | ||||||||||
• The China gains de facto control over the concession after the Surrender of Japan. | 1945 | ||||||||||
| 1947 | |||||||||||
| Currency | Italian yuan | ||||||||||
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The Italian concession of Tianjin (Chinese: 天津意租界; pinyin: Tiānjīn Yì Zūjiè, Italian: Concessione italiana di Tientsin) was a small territory (concession) in central Tianjin (formerly romanized as Tientsin), China, controlled by the Kingdom of Italy between 1901 and 1943, officially ceded to China in 1947.