Misplaced Pages

Wei Prefecture (Shandong)

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Historical administrative division in Shandong, China
Wei Prefecture
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinWéi Zhōu
Wade–GilesWei Chou

Weizhou or Wei Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China centering on modern Weifang, Shandong, China. It existed (intermittently) from 596 until 1376 not long after the founding of the Ming dynasty.

References

  • Shi Weile, ed. (2005). Zhongguo Lishi Diming Da Cidian (中国历史地名大词典) [Large Dictionary of Chinese Historical Place Names] (in Chinese). China Social Sciences Press. p. 2819. ISBN 7-5004-4929-1.
Prefectures of Jingdong Circuit during the Song dynasty
Jingdong East Circuit
Military prefectures
Jingdong West Circuit
Prefectures of Shandong East Circuit during the Jin dynasty


Stub icon

This Shandong location article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Flag of ChinaHourglass icon  

This article related to the history of China is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: