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Praya
Praya () was a term used in Colonial Hong Kong to refer to a promenade by the waterfront. The name comes from the Portuguese term for the broad stone-faced road that runs parallel along the harbour in front of the city.〔(The Praya, Hong Kong ) Illustrations of China and Its People, John Thomson 1837-1921, (London,1873-1874)〕〔 〕 HSBC and Dent & Co. were just some of the major companies based in the area.〔
==History==
British occupation of Hong Kong Island began on 26 January 1841, and the colonial government held its first land sale on 14 June of that year. Purchasers were mostly the British, Indian and Parsee traders such as Dent, Jardines, Lindsay, etc. These traders were mainly import and export merchants and required land with frontage along Victoria Harbour.〔("A Historical and Architectural Appraisal of Queen’s Pier, Central (Annexe B3) ), Antiquities and Monuments Office, Government of Hong Kong SAR, accessdate=2007-12-15〕
Queen's Road, to the south, was the first road opened. The land lots acquired were subsequently much expanded and reclaimed from the sea without paying rent to the government. The first land reclamations after 1841 were private ones without any planning at all, making the shoreline very irregular.〔
A number of reclamation schemes took place around the time that John Bowring served as the Hong Kong Governor. Hence many of the major Praya areas were named after him. The long names are usually "Bowring Praya East", "Bowring Praya Central" for example.
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