Yizhou or Yi Prefecture was a '' zhou'' (prefecture) in imperial China centering on modern

Linyi Linyi () is a prefecture-level city in the south of Shandong province, China. As of 2011, Linyi is the largest prefecture-level city in Shandong, both by area and population, Linyi borders Rizhao to the east, Weifang to the northeast, Zibo t ...

, Shandong, China. It existed (intermittently) from 578 until 1734, when it was recreated as Yizhou Prefecture by the

Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-spea ...

Geography

The administrative region of Yi Prefecture in the

Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdom ...

falls within modern Shandong. It probably includes modern: *Under the administration of

: **Linyi **

Lanling County Lanling County () formerly Cangshan County () is a county of southern Shandong province, bordering Jiangsu province to the south. It is under the administration of Linyi Linyi () is a prefecture-level city in the south of Shandong province, ...

Fei County Fei County or Feixian falls under the jurisdiction of Linyi, in the south of Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal Provinces of China, province of the China, People's Republi ...

Pingyi County Pingyi County () is a county in the south of Shandong Province, China. It is the westernmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Linyi. It has a land area of and a population of in 2001. Its special local products are honeysuck ...

Mengyin County Mengyin County () is a county in the southwest-central part of Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Linyi Linyi () is a prefecture-level city in the south of Shandong province, China. As of 2011, ...

Yinan County Yinan () is a county in the south of Shandong province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Linyi. The population was in 1999.National Population Statistics Materials by County and City - 1999 Period, ''in'Chin ...

Yishui County Yishui County () is a county of south-central Shandong province, People's Republic of China, located in the foothills region of the province. It is the northernmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city ...

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Zaozhuang Zaozhuang () is a prefecture-level city in the south of Shandong province, People's Republic of China. Since January 2019 (after the Laiwu prefecture got incorporated into Jinan prefecture), the smallest prefecture-level city in the province, it b ...

: **Zaozhuang *Under the administration of

Tai'an Tai'an () is a prefecture-level city in Western Shandong Province of the People's Republic of China. Centered on Mount Tai, the city borders the provincial capital of Jinan to the north, Zibo to the east, Linyi to the southeast, Liaocheng to ...

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Xintai Xintai () is a county-level city in the central part of Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It is the easternmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Tai'an and is located about to the southeast of downtown Tai'an. H ...

*Under the administration of

Zibo Zibo (, ) is a prefecture-level city in central Shandong province, China. It borders the provincial capital Jinan to the west, Tai'an to the southwest, Linyi to the south, Weifang to the east, Dongying to the northeast, and Binzhou to the ...

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Yiyuan County Yiyuan (; Wade-Giles: iyüan) is a county in the centre of China's Shandong province and is located in the deep Tai-yi Mountains, and is the southernmost county-level division under the jurisdiction of Zibo City. It had a population of 576,000 ...

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* Prefectures of the Sui dynasty Prefectures of the Tang dynasty Prefectures of Later Tang Prefectures of Later Zhou Prefectures of Later Jin (Five Dynasties) Prefectures of Later Liang (Five Dynasties) Prefectures of Later Han (Five Dynasties) Prefectures of the Song dynasty Prefectures of the Jin dynasty (1115–1234) Prefectures of the Yuan dynasty Former prefectures in Shandong Linyi {{China-hist-stub

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