Jin Prefecture, also known by its Chinese name Jinzhou, was a

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. Its seat—also known as

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—was at Xicheng (modern

Ankang Ankang () is a prefecture-level city in the south of Shaanxi Province in the People's Republic of China, bordering Hubei province to the east, Chongqing municipality to the south, and Sichuan province to the southwest. History The settl ...

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History

Jin was created from Eastern Liang Prefecture (, ''Dōngliángzhōu'') in AD 554 under the

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. Its name—the "gold" or "golden"

—derives from the

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s along the Yue or Moon River still exploited to this day.. Under the Sui, it was renamed Xicheng Commandery (, ''Xīchéngjùn''). Under the

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, it was renamed

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(, ''Ānkāngjùn''). It held 53,029 people in 14,091 households in 639 and 57,929 people in the same number of households in 742. It was abolished again under the

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in 1583.

Geography

Jin Commandery in the

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lay around modern

. It probably includes parts of modern

Hanyin Hanyin County () is a county in the south of Shaanxi province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Ankang. Hanyin was established as early as the Qin dynasty and then known as Xicheng County. In 757 AD it became ...

, Xunyang, and

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