Fujian Circuit, also translated as Fujian Province, was one of the major
circuits during the
Tang
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and
Song
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dynasties
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of
imperial China
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. Its administrative area corresponds to roughly the modern
Chinese
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province
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of
Fujian
Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capi ...
.
History
The Tang-era Fujian Circuit was renamed
Wuwei in 896.
List of governors
Tang
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Chen Yan (884–891)
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Wang Chao (891–896)
Song
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See also
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Qingyuan Jiedushi
''Qingyuan Jiedushi'' () (i.e., the ''Jiedushi'' of Qingyuan Circuit) was a military/governance administrative unit ( circuit) late in China's Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, later renamed to ''Pinghai Jiedushi'' (). It was an office cre ...
, an administrative circuit in the area created under
Southern Tang
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that briefly remained nominally independent as well under Song
References
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Circuits of the Song dynasty
985 establishments
10th-century establishments in China
1278 disestablishments in Asia
13th-century disestablishments in China
Former circuits in Fujian
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