Jin Prefecture, also known by its Chinese name Jinzhou, was a
prefecture
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of
imperial China
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. Its seat—also known as
Jinzhou
Jinzhou (, zh, s= , t=錦州 , p=Jǐnzhōu), formerly Chinchow, is a coastal prefecture-level city in central-west Liaoning province, China. It is a geographically strategic city located in the Liaoxi Corridor, which connects most of the la ...
—was at Pingyang (modern
Linfen
Linfen () is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China, China, bordering Shaanxi province to the west. Linfen City is located in the southern part of Shanxi Province, with the remaining branches of T ...
,
Shanxi
Shanxi; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanised as Shansi is a Provinces of China, province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi a ...
).
History
Jin was created from
Tang Prefecture (, ''Tángzhōu'') in AD 528 under the
Northern Wei
Wei (), known in historiography as the Northern Wei ( zh, c=北魏, p=Běi Wèi), Tuoba Wei ( zh, c=拓跋魏, p=Tuòbá Wèi), Yuan Wei ( zh, c=元魏, p=Yuán Wèi) and Later Wei ( zh, t=後魏, p=Hòu Wèi), was an Dynasties of China, impe ...
dynasty
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H ...
. It was named for the
Jin River that also gave its name to the
Jin march, duchy, and
empire
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. Under the
Sui, it was renamed
Linfen Commandery (, ''Línfénjùn''). Under the
Tang, it was renamed
Pingyang Commandery (, ''Píngyángjùn''). It held 103,100 people in 28,250 households ; 97,505 people in 21,617 households in 639; and 429,221 people in 64,836 households in 742.
Geography
Jin Commandery in the
Tang dynasty
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lay around modern
Linfen
Linfen () is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China, China, bordering Shaanxi province to the west. Linfen City is located in the southern part of Shanxi Province, with the remaining branches of T ...
and
Hongtong in
Shaanxi
Shaanxi is a Provinces of China, province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to t ...
.
See also
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Other Jin Prefectures
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Other Jinzhous
References
* .
Prefectures of the Sui dynasty
Prefectures of the Tang dynasty
Former prefectures in Shanxi
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