Jiyin Commandery ( zh, 濟陰郡) was a

commandery In the Middle Ages, a commandery (rarely commandry) was the smallest administrative division of the European landed properties of a military order. It was also the name of the house where the knights of the commandery lived.Anthony Luttrell and ...

in historical China from

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, located in what is now southwestern

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province. In 144 BC, the Liang Kingdom was divided into five states. Jiyin, one of the successor kingdoms, was ruled by Liu Bushi. Bushi died only one year later, and his kingdom was converted to a commandery under imperial administration. In 25 BC, Liu Kang (劉康), the second son of Emperor Yuan, was granted title "King of Dingtao", as the territory of Jiyin became the Dingtao Kingdom (定陶國). Kang's son Xin succeeded to the imperial throne in 8 BC as the Emperor Ai, and Dingtao was granted to Liu Jing (劉景), another member of the imperial clan. In 5 BC, Jing's fief was changed to Xindu, and Jiyin Commandery was reestablished. In late Western Han period, the commandery administered 9 counties: Dingtao (定陶), Yuanqu (冤句), Lüdu (呂都), Jiami (葭密), Chengyang (成陽),

Juancheng Juancheng County falls under the jurisdiction of Heze, in the southwest of Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shando ...

(鄄城), Juyang (句陽), Du (秺), and Chengshi (乘氏).''

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'', Chapter 28. From 72 to 84 AD, a kingdom under Liu Chang (劉長), a son of Emperor Ming, was established with Jiyin as its territory. It was abolished with the death of Chang. Several counties were exchanged between Jiyin and neighboring commanderies, so that by 140, the commandery had 11 counties, including Dingtao, Yuanqu, Chengyang, Juancheng, Juyang, Lihu (離狐), Linqiu (廪丘), Shanfu (單父), Chengwu (成武) and Jishi (己氏). Juancheng and Linqiu was transferred to

Dong Commandery Dong Commandery ( zh, 東郡) was a commandery in historical China from the Warring States period to Sui dynasty. Its territories were situated in present-day Henan, Hebei and Shandong provinces. The commandery was established by the state of Qin i ...

during the Jian'an Era. During the Jin dynasty, Jiyin was lost during the Yongjia period to the northern states, but later reconquered during Emperor An's reign. Jiyin passed to Jin's successor

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dynasty, and in Emperor Wen's reign, most of it was annexed by

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'', Chapter 35. A new commandery,

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, was split from Jiyin in 540. 4 counties remained: Dingtao, Lihu, Yuanqu and Chengshi. The commandery was eventually abolished in early

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. In Sui and

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dynasties, Jiyin Commandery became the alternative name of

Cao Prefecture Caozhou or Cao Prefecture () was a '' zhou'' (prefecture) in imperial China centering on modern Heze or Cao County in Shandong, China. It existed (intermittently) from the 6th century to 1913. Geography Under the Sui, Cao Prefecture included Yua ...

. In 741, it administered 6 counties: Jiyin, Kaocheng (考城), Yuanqu, Chengshi, Nanhua (南華) and Chengwu.''

New Book of Tang The ''New Book of Tang'', generally translated as the "New History of the Tang" or "New Tang History", is a work of official history covering the Tang dynasty in ten volumes and 225 chapters. The work was compiled by a team of scholars of the So ...

'', Chapter 38.

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