Ying Prefecture (Hebei)

Ying Prefecture
Chinese	瀛州
Mandarin	Yíng Zhōu
Population
• 740s or 750s	663,171[1]
• 1100s	60,206[2]
History
• Preceded by	Hejian Commandery
• Created	487 (Northern Wei) 621 (Tang dynasty) 758 (Tang dynasty)
• Abolished	1108 (Song dynasty)
• Succeeded by
Contained within
• Circuit	Hebei Circuit (1042–1108)

Yingzhou or Ying Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China in modern Hebei, China, seated in modern Hejian.^[3] It existed (intermittently) from 487 until 1108.

It was one of the Sixteen Prefectures ceded by Later Jin to the Liao dynasty, however, just 2 decades later it was seized by Later Zhou during the .

The modern town Yingzhou, Hebei in Hejian retains its name.

Counties[]

Ying Prefecture administered the following counties (縣) through history:

Two other counties were administered by Ying Prefecture before the Five Dynasties period:

• Gaoyang (高陽), roughly modern Gaoyang County. In the Song dynasty it was made into a military prefecture called .^[7]
• Pingshu (平舒), roughly modern Dacheng County. After Later Zhou it was renamed Dacheng (大城) and administered by Bà Prefecture.^[8]

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. ISBN 7-5004-4929-1.
• (in Chinese) Ouyang Xiu; et al., eds. (1060). Xin Tang Shu [New Book of Tang].
• (in Chinese) Toqto'a; et al., eds. (1345). Song Shi [History of Song].

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