is an
old province in the area of
Fukushima Prefecture
Fukushima Prefecture (; ja, 福島県, Fukushima-ken, ) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Fukushima Prefecture has a population of 1,810,286 () and has a geographic area of . Fukushima Prefecture borders Miya ...
.
[ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Iwashiro''" in .] It was sometimes called .
The province occupies the western half of the central part of Fukushima Prefecture; the eastern half is
Iwaki Province. More precisely,
Date
Date or dates may refer to:
*Date (fruit), the fruit of the date palm (''Phoenix dactylifera'')
Social activity
*Dating, a form of courtship involving social activity, with the aim of assessing a potential partner
** Group dating
*Play date, a ...
and
Adachi districts in the north belong to Iwashiro and
Higashishirakawa and
Nishishirakawa districts in the south belong to Iwaki. The border between the two provinces is the
Abukuma River. The former
ichinomiya
is a Japanese historical term referring to the Shinto shrines with the highest rank in a province. Shrines of lower rank were designated , , , and so forth. ''Encyclopedia of Shinto'' ''Ichi no miya'' retrieved 2013-5-14.
The term gave rise t ...
of the province is
Isasumi Shrine.
Timeline
* On December 7, 1868, the province was formed out from
Mutsu Province
was an old province of Japan in the area of Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori Prefectures and the municipalities of Kazuno and Kosaka in Akita Prefecture.
Mutsu Province is also known as or . The term is often used to refer to the comb ...
. As of 1872, the population was 427,933.
Historical districts
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Fukushima Prefecture
Fukushima Prefecture (; ja, 福島県, Fukushima-ken, ) is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Fukushima Prefecture has a population of 1,810,286 () and has a geographic area of . Fukushima Prefecture borders Miya ...
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Aizu
is the westernmost of the three regions of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, the other two regions being Nakadōri in the central area of the prefecture and Hamadōri in the east. As of October 1, 2010, it had a population of 291,838. The princip ...
Region, Fukushima
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Aizu District (会津郡)
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Kitaaizu District (北会津郡) - dissolved
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Minamiaizu District (南会津郡)
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Kawanuma District (河沼郡)
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Ōnuma District (大沼郡)
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Yama District (耶麻郡)
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Nakadōri
is a region comprising the middle third of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. It is sandwiched between the regions of Aizu to the west and Hamadōri to the east. The principal cities of the area are Kōriyama and the prefecture's capital, Fukushima
...
Region, Fukushima
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Adachi District (安達郡)
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Asaka District
Asaka is a Districts of Uzbekistan, district of Andijan Region in Uzbekistan. The capital lies at Asaka, Uzbekistan, Asaka. It has an area of and it had 340,000 inhabitants in 2022.
The district consists of 1 city (Asaka), 4 urban-type settlemen ...
(安積郡) - dissolved
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Date District (伊達郡)
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Iwase District (岩瀬郡)
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Shinobu District (信夫郡) - dissolved
See also
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Iwase Province
Map of the former Japanese provinces with Iwase highlighted
is an old province of Japan which existed for a brief period of time in the Nara period in what is now western Fukushima Prefecture.Kodama. (1958). 図日本文化史大系, p. 30; ex ...
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Sanriku
, sometimes known as , lies on the northeastern side of the island of Honshu, corresponding to today's Aomori, Iwate and parts of Miyagi Prefecture and has a long history.
The 36 bays of this irregular coastline tend to amplify the destructivenes ...
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List of Provinces of Japan
were first-level administrative divisions of Japan from the 600s to 1868.
Provinces were established in Japan in the late 7th century under the Ritsuryō law system that formed the first central government. Each province was divided into and ...
Notes
References
*
Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia.''Cambridge:
Harvard University Press
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OCLC 58053128
Other websites
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