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, China. It existed (intermittently) from 589 to 1276, when the

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renamed it Chuzhou Route.

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* Prefectures of Wuyue Prefectures of the Tang dynasty Liangzhe East Circuit Former prefectures in Zhejiang {{China-hist-stub