Jiangnanxidao (
Chinese
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: 江南西道, ''Circuit of Western
Jiangnan
Jiangnan or Jiang Nan (; formerly romanized Kiang-nan, literally "South of the River" meaning "South of the Yangtze") is a geographic area in China referring to lands immediately to the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, incl ...
'';
Gan
The word Gan or the initials GAN may refer to:
Places
*Gan, a component of Hebrew placenames literally meaning "garden"
China
* Gan River (Jiangxi)
* Gan River (Inner Mongolia),
* Gan County, in Jiangxi province
* Gansu, abbreviated ''Gā ...
: Kongnomsitau) was a southern
circuit of
Tang Empire
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 Kingd ...
. It corresponds to part of present-day
Jiangxi
Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ...
,
Hubei
Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The ...
,
Hunan
Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi ...
,
Anhui
Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...
. Jiangnanxidao is the origin where the name "Jiangxi" derives from, and its administrative territories also roughly represent nowadays Gan-speaking areas in China.
Jiangnanxidao was split from
Jiangnandao
Jiangnan Circuit or Jiangnan Province was one of the major circuits during the Tang dynasty, Five Dynasties period, and early Song dynasty. During the Tang dynasty it was known as Jiangnan Dao (), and during the Song dynasty Jiangnan Lu (), but ...
in 733 with its capital located in Hongzhou (洪州, Gan: Fungjiu), modern-day
Nanchang
Nanchang (, ; ) is the capital of Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. Located in the north-central part of the province and in the hinterland of Poyang Lake Plain, it is bounded on the west by the Jiuling Mountains, and on the east ...
. Jiangnanxidao was divided into nineteen
prefectures
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, namely:
* Xuanzhou, 宣州
* Shezhou, 歙州
* Chizhou, 池州
* Hongzhou, 洪州
* Jiangzhou, 江州
* Ezhou, 鄂州
* Yuezhou, 岳州
* Raozhou, 饒州
* Qianzhou, 虔州
* Jizhou, 吉州
*
Yuanzhou, 袁州
* Xinzhou, 信州
* Fuzhou, 撫州
*
Tanzhou, 潭州
* Hengzhou, 衡州
* Yongzhou, 永州
*
Daozhou Daozhou or Dao Prefecture () was a '' zhou'' (prefecture) in imperial China centering on modern Dao County, Hunan, China. In the Yuan dynasty it was known as Daozhou Route () and in the Ming dynasty (briefly) as Daozhou Prefecture (). It existed ( ...
, 道州
* Binzhou, 郴州
* Shaozhou, 邵州
References
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Circuits of the Tang dynasty
Former circuits in Jiangxi
Former circuits in Hubei
Former circuits in Hunan
Former circuits in Anhui