Port Arthur
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Port Arthur is the name of some places:
- Old Western name for Lüshunkou (a.k.a. Lushun), now only a part of the ice-free seaport city Dalian on the Liaodong Peninsula in the south of Manchuria (China). In 1894 and again in 1904 the site of the Battle of Port Arthur. In 1905 the site of the Siege of Port Arthur. In 1894 the site of the putative Port Arthur massacre of Chinese civilians by Japanese troops.
- Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia
- Port Arthur, Ontario, a city in Ontario, Canada, became part of Thunder Bay in 1970.
- Port Arthur, Texas, United States of America
- VIII District, Turku, a district of Turku, Finland, which is also know as Port Arthur.