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Shashi Shashi may refer to: Places and jurisdictions China * Shashi City (), Hubei from 1949 to 1994 *Shashi District (), Jingzhou, Hubei (historically, Shashi City) since 1994 ** Apostolic Prefecture of Shashi ** Jingmen–Shashi railway, single-trac ...

for namesakes'' Shashi () is a

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivision ...

within the main urban area of

Jingzhou Jingzhou () is a prefecture-level city in southern Hubei province, China, located on the banks of the Yangtze River. Its total residential population was 5,231,180 based on the 2020 census, 1,068,291 of whom resided in the built-up (''or metro' ...

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 p ...

province, People's Republic of China. It is located on the left (northern) bank of the

Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest river in Asia, the third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains (Tibetan Plateau) and flows ...

, between

Yichang Yichang (), alternatively romanized as Ichang, is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, China. It is the third largest city in the province after the capital, Wuhan and the prefecture-level city Xiangyang, by urban populati ...

and

Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city a ...

History

* Shashi was founded during the warring states period as an extension of the Chu capital

Ying Ying may refer to: People * Yíng (嬴), a Chinese surname, the ancestral name of Qin Shi Huang, first Emperor of China in the Qin Dynasty, and some contemporary rival royal families such as the Zhaos * Yīng (应), a Chinese surname from the Z ...

, its port on the Yangtze. * In modern history it is notable as one of the four ports specified to be opened to the Empire of Japan in the

Treaty of Shimonoseki The , also known as the Treaty of Maguan () in China and in the period before and during World War II in Japan, was a treaty signed at the , Shimonoseki, Japan on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of Japan and Qing China, ending the Firs ...

(17 April 1895, which also ended Chinese imperial claims to Korea). The

treaty port Treaty ports (; ja, 条約港) were the port cities in China and Japan that were opened to foreign trade mainly by the unequal treaties forced upon them by Western powers, as well as cities in Korea opened up similarly by the Japanese Empire. ...

grew rapidly into because of this, gaining the moniker of "Little Hankow". Nonetheless, the opening of other coastal ports led to trade moving elsewhere and it gradually declined. In 1994 it lost its status as a city and was combined with Jingzhou to form Jingsha city.

Administrative divisions

Five subdistricts: * Zhongshan Subdistrict (/) * Chongwen Subdistrict (/) *

Jiefang Subdistrict Jiefang, generally a spelling without tonemarks of Jiěfàng (), may refer to: *''Jiefang Daily'', newspaper of the Shanghai committee of the Chinese Communist Party * FAW Jiefang, a truck manufacturing company ** Jiefang CA-30, military truck * t ...

(/) * Shengli Subdistrict (/) * Chaoyang Subdistrict (/) (formerly: Lianhe Subdistrict ()) Four towns: * Luochang () * Cenhe () * Guanyindang () * Guanju () The only township is Lixin Township ()

Ecclesiastical history

The Roman Catholic

Apostolic Prefecture An apostolic prefect or prefect apostolic is a priest who heads what is known as an apostolic prefecture, a 'pre-diocesan' missionary jurisdiction where the Catholic Church is not yet sufficiently developed to have it made a diocese. Although it ...

of Shashi or Shasi / Shasien(sis) (Latin adjective) was established on 7 July 1936, on territory split off from the then

Apostolic Vicariate of Yichang The Roman Catholic Diocese of Yichang/Ichang ( la, Iciamen(sis), ) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishopric of Hankou in central China, yet depends on the missionary Roman Congregation for the ...

(now a diocese), bordering on that, on the dioceses Hanyang and Puqi and on the

Apostolic prefecture of Lixian The Apostolic Prefecture of Lixian is Latin rite pre-diocesan jurisdiction of the Catholic Church with seat in Lixian ( Li County, Hunan), central China. It is exempt, i.e. directly dependent on the Holy See (not part of any ecclesiastical provin ...

. It is a (dormant?) pre-diocesan Latin jurisdiction, which is exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See and it missionary

Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...

, not part of any

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. No statistics available. It is indefinitely vacant, without

Apostolic administrator An Apostolic administration in the Catholic Church is administrated by a prelate appointed by the pope to serve as the ordinary for a specific area. Either the area is not yet a diocese (a stable 'pre-diocesan', usually missionary apostolic adm ...

, since the death of its sole incumbent as ''Apostolic Prefect of Shashi'' : * Father Julian Edward Dillon (), Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (born USA) (1936.07.11 – death 1961.06.25).

References

Sources and external links

Official website of Shashi District government

County-level divisions of Hubei Jingzhou {{Hubei-geo-stub

History

Administrative divisions

Ecclesiastical history

See also

References

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