Cang Prefecture
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| Traditional Chinese | 滄州 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 沧州 | ||||||||
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Cang Prefecture, also known as Cang Zhou or Cangzhou, was a prefecture of imperial China centered on modern Cang County in Cangzhou Prefecture, Hebei Province, China. It existed intermittently from 517 until 1913.
Geography
[edit | edit source]The administrative region of Cang Prefecture in the Tang dynasty was in modern eastern Hebei, Tianjin, and northwestern Shandong. It probably included parts of modern:
- Under the administration of Cangzhou, Hebei:
- Under the administration of Tianjin:
- Tianjin
- Under the administration of Binzhou, Shandong:
- Under the administration of Dezhou, Shandong:
History
[edit | edit source]During the late Tang and the Five Dynasties Period, Cang was one of the three prefectures of the de facto independent jiedushi of Yiwu Province.
Legacy
[edit | edit source]The imperial prefecture was the source of the modern name of Cangzhou, established in 1961.
References
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Categories:
- Prefectures of Later Han (Five Dynasties)
- Prefectures of the Tang dynasty
- Prefectures of the Sui dynasty
- Prefectures of Later Tang
- Prefectures of Yan (Five Dynasties period)
- Prefectures of Later Jin (Five Dynasties)
- Prefectures of the Song dynasty
- Former prefectures in Shandong
- Former prefectures in Hebei
- Former prefectures in Tianjin
- Prefectures of Later Zhou
- Prefectures of the Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
- Prefectures of the Yuan dynasty
- Subprefectures of the Ming dynasty
- Departments of the Qing dynasty
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