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Mount Shiroyama

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Mount Shiroyama
Mount Shiroyama. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Mount Shiroyama (Shiroyama) is a mountain located in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The true height is 107m. The original name is Tsuru ga mine (ヶ; Tsuru ga mine) The mountain is famous as the site of the Battle of Shiroyama in 1877, at the end of the Satsuma rebellion.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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