Yingzhou or Ying Prefecture was a '' zhou'' (prefecture) in imperial China in modern

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 ...

, China, seated in modern Hejian. It existed (intermittently) from 487 until 1108. It was one of the

Sixteen Prefectures The Sixteen Prefectures () comprise a historical region in northern China along the Great Wall in present-day Beijing, Tianjin, and northern Hebei and Shanxi. Name It is more specifically called the Sixteen Prefectures of Yan and Yun or the ...

ceded by Later Jin to the

Liao dynasty The Liao dynasty (; Khitan: ''Mos Jælud''; ), also known as the Khitan Empire (Khitan: ''Mos diau-d kitai huldʒi gur''), officially the Great Liao (), was an imperial dynasty of China that existed between 916 and 1125, ruled by the Yel� ...

, however, just 2 decades later it was seized by

Later Zhou Zhou, known as the Later Zhou (; ) in historiography, was a short-lived Chinese imperial dynasty and the last of the Five Dynasties that controlled most of northern China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Founded by Guo Wei ...

during the Liao–Later Zhou War. The modern town Yingzhou, Hebei in Hejian retains its name.

Counties

Ying Prefecture administered the following counties () through history: Two other counties were administered by Ying Prefecture before the Five Dynasties period: *Gaoyang (), roughly modern Gaoyang County. In the

Song dynasty The Song dynasty (; ; 960–1279) was an imperial dynasty of China that began in 960 and lasted until 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song following his usurpation of the throne of the Later Zhou. The Song conquered the res ...

it was made into a military prefecture called Shun'an Prefecture. *Pingshu (), roughly modern Dacheng County. After

it was renamed Dacheng () and administered by Bà Prefecture.

References

* * * Former prefectures in Hebei Sixteen Prefectures Prefectures of the Sui dynasty Prefectures of the Tang dynasty Prefectures of Later Tang Prefectures of the Liao dynasty Prefectures of Later Zhou Prefectures of the Song dynasty 487 establishments 1100s disestablishments in Asia 5th-century establishments in China 12th-century disestablishments in China {{China-hist-stub