Qingcheng County () is a

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in the east of

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

province, China. It is under the administration of the

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Qingyang Qingyang () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Gansu province, China. Geography and climate Qingyang is the easternmost prefecture-level division of Gansu and is thus sometimes referred to as "Longdong" (). It forms an administrative penins ...

History

The history of Qingcheng dates back to prehistoric settlements 200,000 years ago. And written records mention the city 4,000 years ago. During the

Xia dynasty The Xia dynasty () is the first dynasty in traditional Chinese historiography. According to tradition, the Xia dynasty was established by the legendary Yu the Great, after Shun, the last of the Five Emperors, gave the throne to him. In tradi ...

(2070 and 1600 BC), the area was part of the Yongzhou state. During the late

Shang dynasty The Shang dynasty (), also known as the Yin dynasty (), was a Chinese royal dynasty founded by Tang of Shang (Cheng Tang) that ruled in the Yellow River valley in the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and ...

era, it became part of Yiqu state. In 266 BC it was conquered by the

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. In 221 BC, the Qin set up the county seat of

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(北地郡) in present-day Maling town, ruling over what was then named Yiqu County, where the present day county seat is located. In 220 AD, Qiang and Rong barbarians captured the county. During the

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the

Xubu The Xubu (; LHC: *''sio-pok'') was a tribe of the Xiongnu tribe that flourished between 3rd century BCE to 4th century CE. Chinese annals noted that the Xubu tribe replaced the Huyan tribe, which was an earlier maternal dynastic tribe of the dynast ...

occupied Qingcheng. In 265 it became part of the

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Administrative divisions

Qingcheng County is divided to 9 towns and 6 townships. ;Towns ;Townships

Climate

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Qingcheng County Qingcheng County () is a county in the east of Gansu province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Qingyang. History The history of Qingcheng dates back to prehistoric settlements 200,000 years ago. And written ...

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