Bai Prefecture

Historical administrative division in Guangxi, China
 • 740s or 750s9,498[1] • 1070s or 1080sUnknown, 4,589 households[2] History • Preceded byNan Prefecture (南州) • Created623 (Tang dynasty) • Abolished1136 (Song dynasty) Contained within • Circuit
  • Tang dynasty:
  • Lingnan Circuit
  • Song dynasty:
  • Guangnan Circuit
  • Guangnan West Circuit
Bai Prefecture
Chinese白州
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinBái Zhōu
Nanchang Commandery
Chinese南昌郡
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinNánchāng Jùn

Baizhou or Bai Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China in modern southern Guangxi, China. It existed intermittently from 623 to 1136, and between 742 and 758 it was known as Nanchang Commandery.[3]

Counties

Bai Prefecture administered the following counties (縣) through history:

  • Bobai (博白), roughly modern Bobai County.[4]
  • Nanchang (南昌)[5]
  • Jianning (建寧)[6]
  • Zhouluo (周羅)[7]

Nanchang, Jianning, and Zhouluo, all abolished by the Song dynasty in 972, are probably all in modern Bobai County.

References

  1. ^ Xin Tang Shu, ch. 43.
  2. ^ Song Shi, ch. 90.
  3. ^ Shi, p. 783.
  4. ^ Shi, p. 2494.
  5. ^ Shi, p. 1803.
  6. ^ Shi, p. 1709.
  7. ^ Shi, p. 1623.
  • 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. ISBN 7-5004-4929-1.
  • (in Chinese) Ouyang Xiu; et al., eds. (1060). Xin Tang Shu [New Book of Tang].
  • (in Chinese) Toqto'a; et al., eds. (1345). Song Shi [History of Song].


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