Qīn Prefecture

Qīn Prefecture
Qīn Prefecture
Traditional Chinese	欽州
Simplified Chinese	钦州
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Qīn Zhōu

Qīn Prefecture (欽州)
Ningyue Commandery (寧越郡)
Qīn Prefecture (欽州) Ningyue Commandery (寧越郡)
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Population
• 740s or 750s	10,146
• 1070s or 1080s	Unknown, 10,552 households
History
• Preceded by	An Prefecture
• Created	598 (Sui dynasty)
• Abolished	1912 (R.O. China)
• Succeeded by	Qin County, Guangxi
Contained within
• Circuit	Tang dynasty:; Lingnan Circuit; Song dynasty:; Guangnan Circuit; Guangnan West Circuit;

Qīnzhōu or Qīn Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China in modern Guangxi, China. It existed (intermittently) from 598 to 1912. Between 607–621 and 742–758 it was known as Ningyue Commandery.^[3]

Counties

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

#	Name	Modern location
1	Lingshan (靈山)	Lingshan County^[4]
2	Zunhua (遵化)	Lingshan County^[4]
3	Anyuan (安遠) or Anjing (安京)	Qinzhou Fangchenggang Dongxing, Guangxi ^[5]
4	Qinjiang (欽江)
5	Neiting (內亭)

References

^ Xin Tang Shu, ch. 43.
^ Song Shi, ch. 90.
^ Shi, p. 1901.
^ Shi, p. 1362, 2879.
^ Shi, pp. 1115, 1119, 1901, 399

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].