Map showing original extent of Kurokawa District in Miyagi Prefecture

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rural district Rural districts were a type of local government area – now superseded – established at the end of the 19th century in England, Wales, and Ireland for the administration of predominantly rural areas at a level lower than that of the Ad ...

Miyagi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Miyagi Prefecture has a population of 2,305,596 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Miyagi Prefecture borders Iwate Prefecture to the north, Akita Prefecture to the nort ...

, in the

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of northern Japan. As of 2017, the district had an estimated

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of 42,681 and a

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of 116 persons per km². The total area was 367.82 km². The district is a home to

Miyagi University is a public university located in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Established in 1997, the university has currently two campuses in Miyagi prefecture, after merging with Miyagi Agricultural College in 2005. The university is often called "MYU" or "Miya- ...

, and the main campus of the university is called Kurokawa campus after its location. The city of Tomiya was formerly part of Kurokawa District. At present, the district consists of:

Towns and villages

* Ōsato *

Taiwa 270px, Taiwa Town Hall is a town located in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 28,436, and a population density of 130 persons per km² in 12,016 households. The total area of the town is . Geography Taiwa i ...

* Ōhira

History

The area of Kurokawa District was within

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 ...

and was under the control of the

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Sendai Domain The , also known as the , was a domain of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1600 to 1871. The Sendai Domain was based at Aoba Castle in Mutsu Province, in the modern city of Sendai, located in the Tōhoku region of the i ...

under the

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. In 1869, following the

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, Mutsu Province was divided, with the area of Kurokawa District becoming part of

Rikuzen Province is an old province of Japan in the area of Miyagi Prefecture (excluding Igu, Katta District and Watari Districts) and parts of Iwate Prefecture (specifically Kesen District). Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Rikuzen''" in . It was some ...

, and from 1872, part of Miyagi Prefecture. In the establishment of the modern municipalities system, the district was organized into one town (Yoshioka) and nine villages (Ōhira (大衡村), Yoshida (吉田村), Miyatoko (宮床村), Tomiya (富谷村), Tsurusu (鶴巣村), Ōya (大谷村), Kasukawa (粕川村), Ōmatsuzawa (大松沢村), Ochiai (落合村)). file:Miyagi Kurokawa-gun 1889.png, 1. Yoshioka; 2. Ōhira; 3. Yoshida; 4. Miyatoko; 5. Tomiya; 6. Tsurusu; 7. Ōya; 8. Kasukawa; 9. Ōmatsuzawa;10. Ochiai Purple = Taiwa Town; Pink= Shikama Town; Pink = Ōsato Town; Blue = no change *1 April 1894 District offices established in Yoshioka Town *1 July 1926 District offices abolished *1 July 1954 Ōmatsuzawa, Ōya and Kasakawa merged to form Ōsato village *20 April 1955 Yoshioka, Ochiai, Tsurusu, Miyatoko and Yoshida merge to form Taiwa Town *1 April 1959 Ōsato elevated to town status *1 April 1963 Tomiya elevated to town status *10 October 2016 Tomiya elevated to city status {{Authority control Districts in Miyagi Prefecture