Yingzhou or Ying 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 ...

in modern

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 ...

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 ...

, seated in modern

Ying County Ying County or Yingxian () is a county in the north of Shanxi province, China. It is the easternmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Shuozhou. Ying County is best known for the Pagoda of Fogong Temple, which is built in 1056 ...

. It existed (intermittently) from the 9th century until 1912. It was one of the

Sixteen Prefectures The Sixteen Prefectures, more precisely known as the Sixteen Prefectures of Yan- Yun () or the Sixteen Prefectures of You- Ji (), comprise a historical region in North China along the Great Wall in present-day Beijing, Tianjin, and part of no ...

Geography

The administrative region of Yingzhou 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 northern

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

Shuozhou Shuozhou is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi province, China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the northwest. It is situated along the upper reaches of the Fen River. The prefecture as a whole has an area of about and, 2010 PRC Census, ...

** Shanyin County * Under the administration of

Datong Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province, China. It is located in the Datong Basin at an elevation of and borders Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Hebei to the east. As of the 2020 census, it had a population o ...

Hunyuan County Hunyuan County is a CPRC, county under the administration of Datong City, in the northeast of Shanxi province, China. History During the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history, present-day Hunyuan County formed part of the Baidi people, Ba ...

References

* Former prefectures in Shanxi Sixteen Prefectures Prefectures of the Tang dynasty Prefectures of Later Tang Prefectures of the Liao dynasty Prefectures of the Jin dynasty (1115–1234) Prefectures of the Yuan dynasty Prefectures of the Ming dynasty Prefectures of the Qing dynasty 9th-century establishments in China 1912 disestablishments in China {{PRChina-geo-stub