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Commandery

The commandery (? in pinyin

Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
: jùn) was a historical administrative level

History of the political divisions of China

This article talks about the history of the administrative divisions of China....
of China

China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
. During the Zhou Dynasty

Zhou Dynasty

The Zhou Dynasty was preceded by the Shang Dynasty and followed by the Qin Dynasty in China. The Zhou dynasty lasted longer than any other dynasty in China history?though the actual political and military control of China by the dynasty only lasted during the Western Zhou....
(c. 1046–256 BCE), it was one level below a district (?/?). Qin Shi Huang

Qin Shi Huang

Qin Shi Huang , personal name Ying Zheng , was king of the Chinese Qin from 246 BCE to 221 BCE during the Warring States Period. He became the first emperor of a unified China in 221 BCE....
(r. 221–210 BCE), who unified the Warring States into one heavily-centralized empire

Qin Dynasty

The Qin Dynasty was preceded by the feudal Zhou Dynasty and followed by the Han Dynasty in China. The unification of China in 221 BCE under the Qin Shi Huang marked the beginning of Imperial China, a period which lasted until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912 CE....
, inverted the hierarchy and made commanderies higher than districts. During the Han Dynasty

Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
(202 BCE – 220 CE), the commandery became the core unit of local governmental administration, each commandery divided into counties

County (China)

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The commandery (? in pinyin

Pinyin

History of the political divisions of China

This article talks about the history of the administrative divisions of China....
of China

China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
. During the Zhou Dynasty

Zhou Dynasty

Qin Shi Huang

Qin Dynasty

Han Dynasty

County (China)

In the context of Political divisions of China, county is the standard English translation of ? . In the People's Republic of China, counties are found in the Political divisions of China#County level of the administrative hierarchy, a level that is known as "county-level" and also contains autonomous counties, county-level cities, Bann...
. Whenever a subordinate and semi-autonomous kingdom was abolished, it was replaced by one or multiple commanderies under direct central government control. The Sui

Sui Dynasty

The Sui Dynasty followed the Southern and Northern Dynasties and preceded the Tang Dynasty in China. It ended nearly four centuries of division between rival regimes....
(581–618) and Tang

Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty was an Dynasties in Chinese history preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. It was founded by the Li family, who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire....
(618–907) Dynasties abolished the commanderies and replaced them with zhou or prefecture

Prefecture

Prefecture indicates the office, seat, territorial circumscription of a Prefect. The term prefecture is also used to refer to offices analogous to prefectures....
s.

Commandery

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