Qianzhou or Qian Prefecture (虔州) was a '' zhou'' (prefecture) in

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centering on modern

Ganzhou Ganzhou (), alternately romanized as Kanchow, is a prefecture-level city in the south of Jiangxi province, China, bordering Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, and Hunan to the west. Its administrative seat is at Zhanggong District. His ...

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China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. It existed (intermittently) from 589 to 1153.

Geography

The administrative region of Qianzhou in 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 ...

falls within modern

in southern

. It probably includes modern: *Ganzhou *

Gan County Ganxian District () is a district in the municipal region of Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province. Administration Ganxian has an area of . The district executive, legislature and judiciary The judiciary (also known as the judicial system, judicature, ju ...

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* Prefectures of the Sui dynasty Prefectures of the Tang dynasty Prefectures of the Song dynasty Prefectures of Yang Wu Prefectures of Southern Tang Former prefectures in Jiangxi {{China-hist-stub