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Map of Koka District with Meiji period (1890) area in yellow.
K?ka
(
甲賀郡
,
K?ka-gun
)
was a
district
located in
Shiga Prefecture
,
Japan
.
As of 2003, the district had an estimated
population
of 147,928 and a
density
of 267.90 persons per km
2
. The total area was 552.18 km
2
.
From circa 1460 until 1574, during the
Sengoku period
, the district was effectively independent of centralized state control and operated as the
K?ka-gun Ch?s?
, a military confederacy of
jizamurai
and other warrior families that became known as
ninja
. During this period it formed an
alliance
with its southern neighbor, the
Iga Sokoku Ikki
, a similar independent confederacy of ninja families. Both alliance and the
ikki
ended when
Oda Nobunaga
defeated K?ka and compelled it to be a vassal.
Towns and villages
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]
Before the dissolution in 2004, the district had seven
towns
as listed below. Each municipality is now a part of the city noted in the parentheses.
Mergers
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]
References
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