Hokiang, () was a province in

Northeast China Northeast China or Northeastern China () is a geographical region of China, which is often referred to as "Manchuria" or "Inner Manchuria" by surrounding countries and the West. It usually corresponds specifically to the three provinces east of ...

, which was established in 1945. It was c.52,300 sq mi (135,500 km²) in size and the provincial capital was

Jiamusi Jiamusi (Manchu: ; formerly Kiamusze) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China. Located along the middle and lower reaches of the Songhua River, it faces Russia's Khabarovsk Krai across the Ussuri R ...

History

Medieval history

From 698 to 936, the Mohe-ruled kingdom of

Balhae Balhae ( ko, 발해, zh, c=渤海, p=Bóhǎi, russian: Бохай, translit=Bokhay, ), also rendered as Bohai, was a multi-ethnic kingdom whose land extends to what is today Northeast China, the Korean Peninsula and the Russian Far East. It ...

(Bohai) occupied northern

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and parts of

and

Primorsky Krai Primorsky Krai (russian: Приморский край, r=Primorsky kray, p=prʲɪˈmorskʲɪj kraj), informally known as Primorye (, ), is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, located in the Far East region of the country and is a part of t ...

, consisting of the Nanai, the Udege, and the

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and descendants of the

Tungus Tungusic peoples are an ethno-linguistic group formed by the speakers of Tungusic languages (or Manchu–Tungus languages). They are native to Siberia and Northeast Asia. The Tungusic phylum is divided into two main branches, northern (Evenic or ...

-speaking

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and the people of the recently fallen

Goguryeo Goguryeo (37 BC–668 AD) ( ) also called Goryeo (), was a Korean kingdom located in the northern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula and the southern and central parts of Northeast China. At its peak of power, Goguryeo controlled mos ...

kingdom. Hejiang settled at this moment by Northern Mohe tribes were submitted to Balhae Kingdom under King Mun and reign King Seon's reign (818-830) : * Funie Mohe (拂涅靺鞨) were located on the south between Hejiang Province and Songjiang Province * Tieli Mohe (鐵利靺鞨) on the west of Hejiang Province * Heishui Mohe (黑水靺鞨) roughly between the north of Hejiang Province ( Shuangyashan,

Hegang Hegang (, also known as Heli and Xingshan), is a prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang province of the People's Republic of China, situated in the southeastern section of the Lesser Khingan Range, facing Jiamusi across the Songhua River to the s ...

and Yichun) and the south of actual Khabarovsk Krai (

Bikin Bikin (russian: Бики́н) is a town in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, located on the river Bikin (a tributary of the Ussuri) southwest of Khabarovsk. Population: 19,000 (1967). History It was founded in 1885 as Bikinskaya and was granted town s ...

, Vyazemsky, Lazo and Khabarovsk neighbourhood). King Seon administrated their territories by creating three prefectures : * Dongping (Dongpyeong) Prefecture (東平府) ** Yizhou (Iju) (伊州), present-day

Mishan Mishan () is a county-level city in the southeast of Heilongjiang Province, China, bordering Russia's Primorsky Krai to the south and southeast. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Jixi. History Early medieval histor ...

() as its administrative centre, corresponding to the previous land of the Funie Mohe * Dingli (Cheolli) Prefecture (定理府) ** Delizhen (Deongnijin) (德理鎮) present-day Harbin (), as its administrative centre, corresponding to the previous land of the Tieli Mohe * Huaiyuan (Hoewon) Prefecture (懷遠府) **Dazhou (Dalju) (達州) present-day Tongjiang (), as its administrative centre corresponding to the southern part of the Heishui Mohe territory Balhae was an early feudal medieval state of Eastern Asia, which developed its industry, agriculture, animal husbandry, and had its own cultural traditions and art. People of Balhae maintained political, economic and cultural contacts with the

Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdom ...

, as well as

and Japan.

Modern history

The province was formed in 1945 after the capture of Japanese controlled Manchukuo. In 1949, the province was incorporated into the Songjiang Province and in 1954 the whole area was included into the

Heilongjiang Province Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost provinc ...

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