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Cang Prefecture

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Cang Prefecture
Traditional Chinese滄州
Simplified Chinese沧州
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinCāngzhōu
Wade–GilesTs'ang-chou

Cang Prefecture, also known as Cang Zhou or Cangzhou, was a prefecture of imperial China centered on modern Cang County in Cangzhou Prefecture, Hebei Province, China. It existed intermittently from 517 until 1913.

Geography

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The administrative region of Cang Prefecture in the Tang dynasty was in modern eastern Hebei, Tianjin, and northwestern Shandong. It probably included parts of modern:

History

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During the late Tang and the Five Dynasties Period, Cang was one of the three prefectures of the de facto independent jiedushi of Yiwu Province.

Legacy

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The imperial prefecture was the source of the modern name of Cangzhou, established in 1961.

References

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  • Shi Weile, ed. (2005). Zhongguo Lishi Diming Da Cidian (中国历史地名大词典) [Large Dictionary of Chinese Historical Place Names] (in Chinese). China Social Sciences Press. p. 1343. ISBN 7-5004-4929-1.