Dezhou or De Prefecture () was a ''

zhou Zhou may refer to: Chinese history * King Zhou of Shang () (1105 BC–1046 BC), the last king of the Shang dynasty * Predynastic Zhou (), 11th-century BC precursor to the Zhou dynasty * Zhou dynasty () (1046 BC–256 BC), a dynasty of China ** West ...

'' (prefecture) in imperial China, centering on modern

Dezhou Dezhou () is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It borders the provincial capital of Jinan to the southeast, Liaocheng to the southwest, Binzhou to the northeast, and the province of Hebei ...

, Shandong, China. It existed (intermittently) from 589 until 1913. The modern prefectural-level city Dezhou, created in 1948, retains its name.

Geography

The administrative region of De Prefecture in the

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is in modern northern Shandong and southeastern

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and ...

. It probably includes parts of modern: *Under the administration of

, Shandong: **Dezhou ** Pingyuan County *Under the administration of

Hengshui Hengshui () is a prefecture-level city in southern Hebei province, People's Republic of China, bordering Shandong to the southeast. At the 2010 census its population was 4,340,373 inhabitants whom 522,147 lived in the built-up (''or metro'') ar ...

, Hebei: ** Jing County *Under the administration of

Cangzhou Cangzhou () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Hebei province, People's Republic of China. At the 2020 census, Cangzhou's built-up (''or metro'') area made of Yunhe, Xinhua districts and Cang County largely being conurbated had a populatio ...

, Hebei: **

Wuqiao County Wuqiao County (, literally " Wu Bridge") is a county of southeastern Hebei province, China, bordering Shandong province to the southeast. It is the southernmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Cangzhou. Wuqiao covers an area ...

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* Prefectures of Later Han (Five Dynasties) Prefectures of the Tang dynasty Prefectures of the Sui dynasty Prefectures of Later Tang Prefectures of Yan (Five Dynasties period) Prefectures of Later Jin (Five Dynasties) Prefectures of the Song dynasty Former prefectures in Shandong Former prefectures in Hebei Prefectures of Later Zhou Prefectures of the Jin dynasty (1115–1234) Prefectures of the Yuan dynasty Subprefectures of the Ming dynasty Departments of the Qing dynasty {{China-hist-stub

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