Sai District, Gunma

file: Gumma Sawa-gun 1889.png, Historic Map of Sawa District:
1. Isesaki, 2. Misato, 3. Akabori, 4. Azuma, 5. Uehasu, 6. Moro, 7. Uneme, 8. Gōshi, 9. Sakai, 10. Shima, 11.Toyouke, 12.Nawa, 13. Shibane, 14. Tamamura, 15. Jōyō, 16. Miyagō
Purple = former Sai District was formerly a Districts of Japan, rural district located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The district is now entirely part of the city of Isesaki, Gunma, Isesaki. Sai District was created on December 7, 1878, with the reorganization of Gunma Prefecture into districts. It included 2 towns (Isesaki and Sakai) and 13 villages, which were formerly part of the holdings of Isezaki Domain, 3 villages which belonged to Ichinomiya Domain in

Kazusa Province was a province of Japan in the area of modern Chiba Prefecture. The province was located in the middle of the Bōsō Peninsula, whose name takes its first ''kanji'' from the name of Awa Province and its second from Kazusa and Shimōsa province ...

, 1 village which belonged to

Maebashi Domain 270px, Monument making location of Maebashi Castle, headquarters of Maebashi Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Kōzuke Province (modern-day Gunma Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Maebas ...

and 20 villages which were part of the

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holdings in

Kōzuke Province was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today Gunma Prefecture. Kōzuke bordered by Echigo, Shinano, Musashi and Shimotsuke Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was . Under the '' Engishiki'' classification system, Kōzuke was r ...

under the direct control of the

Tokugawa shogunate The Tokugawa shogunate (, Japanese 徳川幕府 ''Tokugawa bakufu''), also known as the , was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"''Tokugawa-jidai''"in ''Japan Encyclopedia ...

. With the establishment of the municipalities system on April 1, 1889, the area was organized as a two towns and eight villages. On April 1, 1896, the district was merged with

Nawa District Nawa is a large district in the far south of Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. It is 100 km south from Ghazni in a mountainous region. The salt lake Ab-i Istada is located in the northern part of the district. Nawa's population, which is 100% P ...

to form Sawa District Gumma Sai-gun

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