Tongshan District (), formerly Tongshan County () is one of six districts of
Xuzhou
Xuzhou (徐州), also known as Pengcheng (彭城) in ancient times, is a major city in northwestern Jiangsu province, China. The city, with a recorded population of 9,083,790 at the 2020 census (3,135,660 of which lived in the built-up area ma ...
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Jiangsu
Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its ca ...
province, People's Republic of China, bordering
Anhui
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Shandong provinces.
History
Tongshan was originally knows as Pengcheng County, the latter merged into Xuzhou during the Yuan and the Ming dynasties, also in the early Qing. In 1733, as Xuzhou became a prefecture (''fu'') from an independent department (''zhili zhou''), its department proper was separated and renamed "Tongshan" (literally: copper-filled hill), which derives from an island in the
Weishan Lake
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Tongshan was once the metropolitan county (''shou xian'') of Xuzhou, thus it referred to the prefecture since 1912, until the Japanese Army captured the county and made its urban area to be Xuzhou City in 1939.
The county was dissolved in 1952, but restored in the next year.
It became a district since 2010.
Administrative divisions
In the present, Tongshan District has 8 subdistricts and 20 towns.
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References
www.xzqh.org
County-level divisions of Jiangsu
Administrative divisions of Xuzhou
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