Juye () is a
county
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
in western
Shandong
Shandong ( , ; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal Provinces of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region.
Shandong has played a major role in His ...
province which is under the administration of
Heze
Heze, formerly known as Caozhou, is the westernmost prefecture-level city in Shandong province, China, it borders Jining to the east and the provinces of Henan and Anhui to the west and south respectively.
History
Caozhou was at the center ...
municipality. The county is 1,303 square km in area and has a population of approximately 910,000.
History
Juye originally belonged to
Huxi prefecture.
Qing & Republic
Juye was the site of the "
Juye Incident
The Juye Incident (, german: Juye Vorfall) refers to the killing of two German Catholic missionaries, Richard Henle and Franz Xaver Nies, of the Society of the Divine Word, in Juye County Shandong Province, China in the night of 1–2 Novemb ...
" on November 1, 1897. The murder of Christian missionaries was used by the
German Empire
The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...
as an excuse to occupy
Jiaozhou Bay.
Liberation
From 1949 to 1952 Huxi prefecture (Juye and the other county-level parts) was under the provincial administration of
Pingyuan.
In April 1953 Huxi was dismantled and its parts shared out. Juye then came into its present municipal region of Heze.
Administrative divisions
As 2012, this County is divided to 2 subdistricts and 15 towns.
;Subdistricts
* Fenghuang Subdistrict ()
* Yongfeng Subdistrict ()
;Towns
Climate
References
External links
Juye Online(Chinese)
Juye Merchant Network(Chinese)
Counties of Shandong
Heze
{{Shandong-geo-stub