Laizhou or Lai Prefecture was a '' zhou'' (prefecture) in

imperial China The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area. Each region now considered part of the Chinese world has experienced periods of unity, fracture, prosperity, and strife. Chinese civilization first emerged in the Y ...

, centering on modern

Laizhou Laizhou, Postal Map Romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized as Laichow, is a county-level city in the Prefecture-level city of Yantai, Shandong, Shandong Province, China. As of 2008, Laizhou had a population of 902,000, out of ...

Shandong Shandong is a coastal Provinces of China, province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural ...

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. It existed (intermittently) from 585 until 1376. The modern city of Laizhou, created in 1988, retains its name.

Geography

The administrative region of Lai Prefecture during the

Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, c=唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an Wu Zhou, interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed ...

was in modern northeastern

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

Yantai Yantai, formerly known as Chefoo, is a coastal prefecture-level city on the Shandong Peninsula in northeastern Shandong province of the People's Republic of China. Lying on the southern coast of the Bohai Strait, Yantai borders Qingdao ...

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** Laiyang **

Haiyang Haiyang (), is a coastal city in the Shandong province in eastern China, located on the Yellow Sea (southern) coast of the Shandong Peninsula. Its name translates directly to "ocean" (海) and "sun" (阳) in Mandarin. It is a county-level city ...

*Under the administration of

Qingdao Qingdao, Mandarin: , (Qingdao Mandarin: t͡ɕʰiŋ˧˩ tɒ˥) is a prefecture-level city in the eastern Shandong Province of China. Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, Qingdao was long an important fortress. In 1897, the city was ceded to G ...

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Jimo Jimo District (), formerly Jimo City (), is a District of Qingdao, Shandong. Location Jimo is located in the southwest of the Shandong Peninsula, bordered by the Yellow Sea on the east and Mount Lao on the south. Climate Jimo has a modera ...

Pingdu Pingdu () is the largest county-level city of Qingdao sub-provincial city, Shandong Province, China. It is located in the east of the Shandong Peninsula (Jiaodong Peninsula), the heart of peninsula. It borders Yantai and Weifang Weifang ( z ...

** Laixi

References

* Prefectures of Later Han (Five Dynasties) Prefectures of the Tang dynasty Prefectures of the Sui dynasty Prefectures of Later Tang Prefectures of Later Liang (Five Dynasties) Prefectures of Later Jin (Five Dynasties) Prefectures of the Song dynasty Former prefectures in Shandong Prefectures of Later Zhou Prefectures of the Jin dynasty (1115–1234) Prefectures of the Yuan dynasty {{China-hist-stub

Geography

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