The town of Tingzhou () is the seat of the

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government,

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and

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History

For information on Tingzhou Town's colorful past, see the wiki pages on

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it seats and on the former prefecture it seated. In early April 1932, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and others held a military conference to attack Zhangzhou at the

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Reference of Place-name

The county town bears the name of the large pre-

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prefecture which it long administered;

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encompassed Ninghua and Qingliu counties in

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municipality as well as the entirety of

Religion

The town is the seat of a modest cathedral built by Roman Catholic bishop Johann Lesinski. To this day the territory of the Imperial-era prefecture

remains, in the eyes of the

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, a diocese under the Metropolitan at

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. The cathedral has no such status though under the Patriotic Catholic administration, and in fact is little used even as a church.

Notes and references

Cities in Fujian Longyan Township-level divisions of Fujian {{Fujian-geo-stub