The Ming loyalist general Zheng Chenggong (Koxinga) bombarded the Dutch from Anping Harbor, which today the inhabitants of Tainan City call Anping Ward! Property is now being built quickly there. These alluvial plains were the first footholds for the island's earliest human inhabitants. Not every city that sits on an alluvial plain, however, is seeing its land area increase every year.
十六世紀，荷蘭人將「熱蘭遮城」建在外海沙島上，今天當地已「陸化」為台南市區，為台南帶來數不盡建築與開發利益的安平區，當時位置也還在茫茫大海裡。