Zizhou or Zi Prefecture (資州) was a '' zhou'' (prefecture) in

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centering around modern

Zizhong County Zizhong County is a county of Sichuan Province, China. It is under the administration of Neijiang Neijiang ( zh, s=内江 , t=內江; Sichuanese Pinyin: Nui4jiang1; Sichuanese Mandarin, Sichuanese pronunciation: ; zh, p=Nèijiāng , w=Nei-chia ...

Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...

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. It existed (intermittently) from 587 until 1913.

Geography

The administrative region of Zizhou 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 ...

is in modern eastern

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

Neijiang Neijiang ( zh, s=内江 , t=內江; Sichuanese Pinyin: Nui4jiang1; Sichuanese Mandarin, Sichuanese pronunciation: ; zh, p=Nèijiāng , w=Nei-chiang) is a prefecture-level city in the southeast of Sichuan province, People's Republic of China. It ...

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**Neijiang *Under the administration of Ziyang: **Ziyang

References

* Prefectures of Former Shu Prefectures of the Tang dynasty Prefectures of Later Tang Prefectures of the Sui dynasty Prefectures of Later Shu Prefectures of the Song dynasty Prefectures of the Yuan dynasty Departments of the Qing dynasty Former prefectures in Sichuan {{China-hist-stub