Dazhou, Sichuan

Dazhou 达州市
Prefecture-level city
Location of Dazhou City jurisdiction in Sichuan
Country	China
Province	Sichuan
	384,525
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)
Postal code	635000
Area code(s)	0818
Licence Plate Prefixes	川S
Administrative division code	511700
ISO 3166-2	CN-51-17
Website	http://www.dazhou.gov.cn/

Dazhou (simplified Chinese: 达州; traditional Chinese: 達州; pinyin: Dázhōu; Wade–Giles: Ta-chou) is a prefecture-level city in the northeast corner of Sichuan province, China, bordering Shaanxi to the north and Chongqing to the east and south. 2002 population was 384,525.

Dazhou's history goes back to the Eastern Han Dynasty when in 90 AD it was made a county by the name of Liweizhou (历为州). Then until the Liao Dynasty its name was Zaidi (在地). During the Liao and Tang dynasties its name was again changed, this time to Tongzhou (通州). Finally in the Song Dynasty it was given its present name of Dazhou.

Notable people from Dazhou include the Three Kingdoms writer Chen Shou, Song Dynasty astronomer Zhang Sixun, and Ming and Qing Dynasty philosopher and educator Tang Zhen. Dazhou also made notable contributions to the Communist Revolution. Red Army heroes such as Xu Xiangqian, Li Xiannian, Xu Shiyou, Wang Weizhou (王维舟), and Zhang Aiping were all from, or lived in, Dazhou.

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