- Maki, Niigata (Kubiki)
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Maki (牧村; -mura) was a village located in the Higashikubiki District, Niigata, Japan. The town had no special relationship with another Maki in the same prefecture.
The village was established in 1901 by merging Kawabe, Kawakami, and Kunimi Villages.
Maki had a population of 2,940 as of January 1, 2003.
Etymologically maki means "meadow".
On January 1, 2005 Maki, along with the town of Yasuzuka, the villages of Ōshima and Uragawara, all from Higashikubiki District, the towns of Itakura, Kakizaki, Ōgata and Yoshikawa, the villages of Kiyosato, Kubiki, Nakagō and Sanwa, all from Nakakubiki District, and the town of Nadachi, from Nishikubiki District, was absorbed into the expanded city of Jōetsu.
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