Jiangling () is a county in southern
Hubei
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province,
People's Republic of China
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. Administratively, it is under the jurisdiction of
Jingzhou
Jingzhou ( zh, s=, c=荆州, t=, p=Jīngzhōu) 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 Seventh National Population Censu ...
City.
History
The county name derived from the old name of
Jingzhou
Jingzhou ( zh, s=, c=荆州, t=, p=Jīngzhōu) 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 Seventh National Population Censu ...
.
Liang Dynasty
The Liang dynasty (), alternatively known as the Southern Liang () or Xiao Liang () in historiography, was an imperial dynasty of China and the third of the four Southern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period. It was pre ...
Prince
Xiao Yi (蕭繹; 507–555) was made governor of Jingzhou, of which Jiangling was the provincial capital, at about the time that scholar and writer
Yan Zhitui (531–590s) was born there. After defeating the
Hou Jing Rebellion, Xiao Yi took the Liang throne, but instead of moving back to the imperial capital at Jiankang (
Nanjing
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Situated in the Yang ...
), he settled in Jiangling -- although his courtiers had advised otherwise. In 553, he allied with the
Western Wei
Wei (), known in historiography as the Western Wei (), was an imperial dynasty of China that followed the disintegration of the Northern Wei. One of the Northern dynasties during the era of the Northern and Southern dynasties, it ruled the weste ...
regime to attack his own younger brother,
Xiao Ji (蕭紀; 508–553), who had used his own position as governor in
Sichuan
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to declare himself emperor. Unfortunately for the Liang Dynasty as a whole, this enabled Western Wei to take the Shu area (Sichuan) and then turn against Xiao Yi, attacking Jiangling in 554 and conquering the city with great brutality.
In 1994, Jiangling County was dissolved and converted to two districts (
Jingzhou
Jingzhou ( zh, s=, c=荆州, t=, p=Jīngzhōu) 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 Seventh National Population Censu ...
and Jiangling) of
Jingzhou City. The current Jiangling County was established in 1998, when the Jiangling District, then covering 11 outlying towns and townships, was again reverted to county status.
Administrative divisions
Six towns:
*
Zishi (),
Xionghe (),
Baimasi (),
Shagang (),
Puji (),
Haoxue ()
Two townships:
*
Majiazhai Township (),
Qinshi Township ()
Three other areas:
*
Jiangbei (),
Sanhu (), Lu/Liuheyuan ()
References
External links
Counties of Hubei
Jingzhou
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