Cai Prefecture

Cai Prefecture
Cai Prefecture
Chinese	蔡州
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Cài Zhōu
Wade–Giles	Ts'ai4 Chou1

Caizhou or Cai Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China in modern Henan, China, seated in modern Runan County. It existed (intermittently) from 606 until 1293.

Caizhou was the location of the Siege of Caizhou, the last major battle of the Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty, which took place in 1233.^[1]

^ Mote, Frederick W. (1999). Imperial China: 900–1800. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-44515-5. (hardcover); ISBN 978-0-674-01212-7 (paperback).

[1] Mote, Frederick W. (1999). Imperial China: 900–1800. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-44515-5. (hardcover); ISBN 978-0-674-01212-7 (paperback).

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