Lu Prefecture |
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Traditional | |
Mandarin | Lú Zhōu |
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Population | |
• 740s or 750s | 205,396 |
• 1100s | 178,359 |
History | |
• Preceded by | Lujiang Commandery |
• Created |
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• Abolished | 1277 (Yuan dynasty) |
• Succeeded by | Luzhou Route |
Contained within | |
• Circuit |
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Luzhou or Lu Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China centering on modern Hefei, Anhui, China. It existed (intermittently) from 581 to 1277.
Lu Prefecture administered the following counties (縣) through history:
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.