| Bing Prefecture | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 并州 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 并州 | ||||||||
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Bingzhou or Bing Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China, centering on modern Taiyuan, Shanxi, China. It existed (intermittently) from the Tang dynasty until 723 and from 979 until 1059, when the Song dynasty renamed it Taiyuan Prefecture.