Lu Prefecture (Anhui)

Lu Prefecture
Traditional
Mandarin Lú Zhōu

Population
  740s or 750s 205,396[1]
  1100s 178,359[2]
History
  Preceded by Lujiang Commandery
  Created
  Abolished 1277 (Yuan dynasty)
  Succeeded by Luzhou Route
Contained within
  Circuit

Luzhou or Lu Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China centering on modern Hefei, Anhui, China. It existed (intermittently) from 581 to 1277.[3]

Counties

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

#Sui dynastySong dynastyModern location
1Hefei (合肥)Hefei (City Proper)[4]
2Shen (慎)
  • Shen, 960–1162
  • Liang (梁), after 1162
Feidong County[5]
3Xiang'an (襄安)Chao (巢)administered by Wuwei PrefectureChaohu[6]
4Lujiang (廬江)Lujiang County[7]
5Shucheng (舒城)Shucheng County[8]

During the Five Dynasties period, Lu Prefecture was administered by Wu from 907 to 937, by Southern Tang from 937 to 958, and by Later Zhou (who seized the prefecture from Southern Tang during the Southern Tang–Later Zhou War) from 958 to 960.

References

  1. Xin Tang Shu, ch. 41.
  2. Song Shi, ch. 88.
  3. Shi, p. 1307.
  4. Shi, p. 1038.
  5. Shi, pp. 2747, 2459.
  6. Shi, pp. 2944, 2480.
  7. Shi, p. 1307.
  8. Shi, p. 2577.
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