Bei Prefecture

Bei Prefecture
Bei Prefecture
Traditional Chinese	貝州
Hanyu Pinyin	Bèi Zhōu
	;
Population
• 740s or 750s	834,757
History
• Preceded by	Qinghe Commandery
• Created	578 (Northern Zhou); 621 (Tang dynasty); 758 (Tang dynasty);
• Succeeded by	En Prefecture
Contained within
• Circuit	Hebei Circuit

Last updated September 15, 2025

Beizhou or Bei Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China seated in modern Qinghe County in Hebei, China. It existed (intermittently) from 578 to 1048, when its name changed to En Prefecture after Wang Ze's rebellion in the prefecture.^[2]

Geography

The administrative region of Bei Prefecture in the Tang dynasty is in the border area of southeastern Hebei and western Shandong. It probably includes parts of modern:

Under the administration of Xingtai, Hebei:
- Qinghe County
Under the administration of Liaocheng, Shandong:
- Linqing
Under the administration of Dezhou, Shandong:
- Xiajin County
- Wucheng County

References

↑ Xin Tang Shu, ch. 41.
↑ Shi , p. 401.

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].

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[1] Xin Tang Shu, ch. 41.

[2] Shi , p. 401.

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