Baizhou or Bai Prefecture was a '' zhou'' (prefecture) in

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in modern southern

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. It existed intermittently from 623 to 1136, and between 742 and 758 it was known as Nanchang

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Counties

Bai Prefecture administered the following counties (縣) through history: *Bobai (博白), roughly modern

Bobai County Bobai (; Zhuang: ') is a county of Guangxi, China. It is under the administration of Yulin city. Bobai was the home town of the linguist Wang Li, who described the Bobai dialect with its unusually large number of tones. Transportation The c ...

. *Nanchang (南昌) *Jianning (建寧) *Zhouluo (周羅) Nanchang, Jianning, and Zhouluo, all abolished by the

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in 972, are probably all in modern Bobai County.

References

* * * Prefectures of the Tang dynasty Prefectures of Southern Han Guangnan West Circuit Former prefectures in Guangxi 623 establishments 7th-century establishments in China 1130s disestablishments in Asia 12th-century disestablishments in China {{China-hist-stub