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- ↑ Tokyo Metropolitan Government: History of Tokyo, p.233 (Note: The document doesn't specify how it treats dates before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1873. The eleventh month of the Gregorian year 1871 is November 1871, but the eleventh month of the year Meiji 4 began in Gregorian December 1871 and ended in Gregorian January 1872.)
- ↑ Tokyo Metropolitan Archives: Documents related to the transfer of the seven Izu Islands (in Japanese)
- ↑ Ogasawara-mura/Ogasawara Village: History (in Japanese)
- ↑ National Archives of Japan: The incorporation of the three Tama into Tokyo prefecture (in Japanese)
- ↑ Nishitōkyō-shi (West Tokyo city)/Nishitokyo City, city history, Hōya section: 市のおいたち・地名の由来（保谷版）
- ↑ Kita-ku/Kita City: Kita-kusei yōran/Kita City Guide (bilingual Japanese/English; but the chronological table is Japanese only), p. 31
- ↑ Mizuho-machi/Mizuho Town: History
- ↑ Iruma-shi/Iruma City: City outline (in Japanese), p. 3
- 1 2 3 4 5 Hachiōji City: 都市体制編 [ permanent dead link ], p. 28
- 1 2 Tokyo Metropolitan Archives: 大東京35区物語～15区から23区へ～東京23区の歴史
- ↑ Miyake Village: 行政概要／沿革
- ↑ Machida City: 沿革
- ↑ Tachikawa City: 立川市の歴史(1950年から1970年まで) Archived 2013-10-24 at archive.today
- ↑ Higashiyamato City: 市の花、市の木、市章、市の名称>市の名称 「東大和」の名称について