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Yenchowfu
Yanzhou ( postal: Yenchow; ) is a district in the prefecture-level city of Jining, in the southwest of Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It was also the name of one of the Nine Provinces in ancient China, where Yu combated floods by water control. Administration Yanzhou District administers six subdistricts and six towns: Subdistricts () Towns () History Yanzhou was the first place to install the "school-fields" ''xuetian'' in 1022, during the Song dynasty. In early European sources, based on accounts by French missionaries, the name of Yanzhou ( Fu) is transcribed in the contemporary French manner, as Yen-tcheou-fou; however, when reading 18th- and 19th-century books in French or English, care should be taken not to confuse Yanzhou in Shandong with the identically transcribed Yanzhou in Zhejiang. Geology The land structure of the Yinzhou area belongs to the Luxi fault block uplift (level III) and the Zhangzhou fault (Grade IV) unit. The eastern pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District Of The People's Republic Of China
The term ''district'', in the context of China, is used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China. In the modern context, district (), formally city-governed district, city-controlled district, or municipal district (), are subdivisions of a municipality or a prefecture-level city. The rank of a district derives from the rank of its city. Districts of a municipality are prefecture-level; districts of a sub-provincial city are sub-prefecture-level; and districts of a prefecture-level city are county-level. The term was also formerly used to refer to obsolete county-controlled districts (also known as district public office). However, if the word ''district'' is encountered in the context of ancient Chinese history, then it is a translation for ''xian'', another type of administrative division in China. Before the 1980s, cities in China were administrative divisions containing mostly urban, built-up areas, with very little farmland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulou Subdistrict, Yanzhou
A Gulou () is a drum tower traditionally located in the center of Chinese cities. It may also refer to: Individual drum towers *Beijing Gulou and Zhonglou, the drum tower and bell tower of Beijing * Drum Tower of Xi'an * Drum Tower of Nanjing * Bianjing Drum Tower Administrative divisions in China Districts *Gulou District, Fuzhou, Fujian *Gulou District, Kaifeng, Henan *Gulou District, Nanjing Gulou District () is one of 11 districts of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, China. It is named after the Drum Tower of Nanjing (Gulou). Administrative subdivisions Gulou has administrative jurisdiction to 13 subdistricts: In 2013, ..., Jiangsu *Gulou District, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Subdistricts * Gulou Subdistrict, Beijing * Gulou Subdistrict, Ezhou, in Echeng District, Ezhou, Hubei * Gulou Subdistrict, Macheng, in Macheng, Huanggang, Hubei Townships * Gulou, Anhua, Hunan Province * Gulou, Dongkou (), Dongkou County, Hunan See also * Gulou station (other) * Drum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhejiang
Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiangsu and Shanghai to the north, Anhui to the northwest, Jiangxi to the west and Fujian to the south. To the east is the East China Sea, beyond which lies the Ryukyu Islands. The population of Zhejiang stands at 64.6 million, the 8th highest among China. It has been called 'the backbone of China' due to being a major driving force in the Chinese economy and being the birthplace of several notable persons, including the Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek and entrepreneur Jack Ma. Zhejiang consists of 90 counties (incl. county-level cities and districts). The area of Zhejiang was controlled by the Kingdom of Yue during the Spring and Autumn period. The Qin Empire later annexed it in 222 BC. Under the late Ming dynasty and the Qing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yanzhou Prefecture (Zhejiang)
Yanzhou Prefecture () was an administrative unit (prefecture) in Zhejiang Province of China during the Ming and Qing The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speaki ... Dynasties. It was abolished in 1912, soon after the fall of the Qing. The territory of the former Yanzhou Prefecture is now part of the Hangzhou Prefecture-level city. The prefectural capital was in Jiande, which, on account of this, was often referred to as Yanzhou Fu (严州府) both in Chinese and in Western languages. A transcription commonly seen in both French and English writing of the time was Yen-tcheou-fou, derived from French missionary writing. Divisions Yanzhou prefecture was composed of the following subdivisions. * Jiande County (建德縣/建德县) * Tonglu County (桐廬縣/桐庐县) * Chun' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhou (country Subdivision)
''Zhou'' () were historical administrative and political divisions of China. Formally established during the Han dynasty, ''zhou'' existed continuously in 1912—a period of over 2000 years. ''Zhou'' were also previously used in Korea (, ''ju''), Vietnam ( vi, châu), and . Overview ''Zhou'' is typically rendered by several terms in the English language: * The large ''zhou'' before the Tang dynasty and in countries other than China are called "provinces" * The smaller ''zhou'' during and after the Tang dynasty are called "prefectures" * The ''zhou'' of the Qing dynasty are also called either "independent" or "dependent departments", depending on their level. The Tang dynasty also established '' fǔ'' (, "prefectures"), ''zhou'' of special importance such as capitals and other major cities. By the Ming and Qing, became predominant divisions within Chinese provinces. In Ming and Qing, the word ''fǔ'' () was typically attached to the name of each prefecture's capital cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yandian, Yanzhou
Yandian () is a town under the administration of Yanzhou City in southwestern Shandong province, China, located about west of downtown Yanzhou. , it has 66 villages under its administration. See also * List of township-level divisions of Shandong This is a list of township-level divisions of the province of Shandong, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative divis ... References Township-level divisions of Shandong {{Shandong-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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