Bei Prefecture

Bei Prefecture
Traditional Chinese
Hanyu PinyinBèi Zhōu

Population
 • 740s or 750s834,757[1]
History
 • Preceded byQinghe Commandery
 • Created
 • Succeeded byEn Prefecture
Contained within
 • CircuitHebei Circuit

Beizhou or Bei Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China seated in modern Qinghe County in Hebei, China. It existed (intermittently) from 578 to 1048, when its name changed to En Prefecture after Wang Ze's rebellion in the prefecture.[2]

  1. ^ Xin Tang Shu, ch. 41.
  2. ^ Shi, p. 401.