| Dai Prefecture | |||||||||
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 The Bianjing Drum Tower in Daixian | |||||||||
| Chinese | 代州 | ||||||||
| Postal | Taichow | ||||||||
| Literal meaning | Dai Prefecture | ||||||||
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Dai Prefecture, also known by its Chinese name Daizhou, was a prefecture (zhou) of imperial China in what is now northern Shanxi. It existed intermittently from AD 585 to 1912. Its eponymous seat Daizhou was located at Shangguan in Dai County. The territory it administered included all or part of what are now the counties of Dai, Wutai, Fanshi, and Yuanping in Shanxi's Xinzhou Prefecture.