| Cang Prefecture | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 滄州 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 沧州 | ||||||||
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Cang Prefecture,also known as Cang Zhou or Cangzhou,was a prefecture of imperial China centered on modern Cang County in Cangzhou Prefecture,Hebei Province,China. It existed intermittently from 517 until 1913.
The administrative region of Cang Prefecture in the Tang dynasty was in modern eastern Hebei,Tianjin,and northwestern Shandong. It probably included parts of modern:
During the late Tang and the Five Dynasties Period,Cang was one of the three prefectures of the de facto independent jiedushi of Yiwu Province.
The imperial prefecture was the source of the modern name of Cangzhou,established in 1961.
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