The migrated provinces, commanderies and counties (Chinese: 僑州郡縣; pinyin: Qiáo zhōu jùn xiàn) were the consequences of a special administrative regionalization...

is now northern Shanxi and southern Inner Mongolia. He created Yanmen Commandery along with its companion commanderies of Dai and Yunzhong to consolidate...

role. Only 100 military officials were stationed in large commanderies, while smaller commanderies only had 50. The emperor had hope that concentrating military...

jurisdiction of the lodged commanderies. A few lodged administrative divisions are still retained in China nowadays. For instance, Dangtu County was originally located...

clan in Gansu. During the early Tang dynasty many Lis migrated to Fujian and Hainan provinces. After the mass adoption of the imperial Li surname during...

Teutonic Order, commanderies were set up for the administration of the country. The area of Mohrungen was split between the Elbing Commandery and the Christburg...

divided into 13 administrative divisions or provinces (excluding the capital Chang'an and seven commanderies in its vicinity), each governed by a cishi...

Yi (士壹), Shi Wei (士䵋) and Shi Wu (士武) were respectively the Administrators of Hepu (合浦), Jiuzhen (九真) and Nanhai (南海) commanderies in Jiao Province. In...

him, ravaging Pengcheng and Xiapi commanderies. Tao Qian fled to Donghai Commandery in 194 and received the aid of Tian Kai and Liu Bei, but died from...

of migration and cultural expansion. In 221 BC, Qin Shi Huang unified China and extended his authority south. Commanderies and counties were established...

was from Fupo County (富陂縣), Runan Commandery (汝南郡), which is located southeast of present-day Funan County, Anhui. His family migrated to the south of...

commanderies and sixteen counties were established by the Western Jin dynasty. Like other southern provinces such as Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, and...

32 sq mi), and a population of 3,873,239 as of the 2020 census. It comprises Meijiang District, Meixian District, Xingning City and five counties. Its built-up...

descending order of size, into political units of provinces, commanderies, and counties. A county was divided into several districts (xiang 鄉), the latter...

war by Qin and Han". Later Han dynasty established the Four Commanderies, and in 12 AD Goguryeo made its first attack on the Xuantu Commandery. The population...

region and incorporated the old Zhao wall into the Qin dynasty Great Wall of China. He also maintained two commanderies in the region: Jiuyuan and Yunzhong...

administrator of Jiaozhi Commandery, Su Ding, was too afraid to confront them and fled. The commanderies of Jiuzhen, Hepu, and Rinan all rebelled. Trưng...

century AD by families descended from Chinese nobility. Special "commanderies of immigrants" and "white registers" were created for the massive number of Han...

ruling Ming dynasty. Hainan was historically part of Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces and as such was the Qiongya Circuit (瓊崖道) under the 1912 establishment...

100 contemporary commanderies of China. As the largest commandery of Yangzhou, Yuzhang accounted for two fifths of the population and Gan gradually took...

1912, Fu, Prefectures, and Ting were established, and counties were placed under direct provincial jurisdiction. Wuhu County was directly governed by...

from Ji Province to Shanggui County and put them under the jurisdiction of Jingzhao, Tianshui, and Nan'an (南安) commanderies. By 233, Sima Yi's agricultural...

In the mid-2nd century BCE, elements of the Lesser Yuezhi reportedly migrated into southern Gansu, where they subsequently merged with the Qiang population...

Guangxi and western Guangdong. The 3rd century Nanzhou Yiwuzhi mentioned bandits called Lǐ (俚) who lived south of Guangzhou in the five commanderies: Cangwu...

mdo-gams (Tibetan: མདོ་གམས) and mdo-smad (Tibetan: མདོ་སྨད), Yuan confirmed the division, and Do Kham as two well defined commanderies, along with Ü-Tsang, were...

came to Southeast Asia by migrating from Africa, known as the "Out of Africa" model. Homo sapiens are believed to have migrated through the Middle East...

Guangyang Commandery and Youzhou. The Wei Kingdom reorganized and decentralized the governance of commanderies under Youzhou. Guangyang Commandery became...

its territory into "commanderies" (Chinese: 郡; pinyin: jùn; Sidney Lau: gwan6)- roughly equivalent to modern day provinces - and the territory of what...

to the northwest, Zhoukou to the southwest, and the provinces of Shandong and Anhui to the northeast and southeast respectively. Its population was 7...

escape to the commanderies of Anding or Wuwei (武威郡; in present-day Jingyuan County, Gansu), so he also suggested setting up a new commandery around Gaopingchuan...