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was an old province in the area that is today northern Kyoto Prefecture
Kyoto Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Kinki region of the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Kyoto....
 facing the Sea of Japan
Sea of Japan

The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordered by Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Russia. It is referred to in North Korea as the Korea East Sea and in South Korea as the East Sea....
. Tango bordered on Tajima
Tajima Province

was an old provinces of Japan of Japan in the area that is today northern Hyogo Prefecture. Tajima bordered on Harima Province, Inaba Province, Tamba Province, and Tango Province provinces....
, Tamba
Tamba Province

was an Provinces of Japan of Japan. The ambit of its borders encompassed both the central part of modern Kyoto Prefecture and the east-central part of Hyogo Prefecture....
, and Wakasa
Wakasa Province

was an old provinces of Japan in the area that is today southern Fukui prefecture. It is also known as Reinan .The province's ancient capital was at Obama, Fukui, which continued to be the main castle town through the Edo period....
 provinces.

At various times both Maizuru
Maizuru, Kyoto

is a cities of Japan located in Kyoto prefecture, Japan, on an inlet of the Sea of Japan.As of 2008, the city has an estimated population of 89,626 and the population density of 264 persons per km?....
 and Miyazu
Miyazu, Kyoto

is a cities of Japan located in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.As of 2008, the city has an estimated population of 20,354 and the population density of 133.16 persons per km?....
 were the capital and chief town of the province
Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state....
.

he 3rd month of the 6th year of the Wado
Wado (era)

was a after Keiun and before Reiki . This period spanned the years from 708 through 715. The reigning emperor was ....
 era (713), the land of Tango Province was administratively separated from Tamba Province
Tamba Province

was an Provinces of Japan of Japan. The ambit of its borders encompassed both the central part of modern Kyoto Prefecture and the east-central part of Hyogo Prefecture....
. In that same year, Empress Gemmei
Empress Gemmei

was the 43rd Emperor of Japan of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. This sovereign is sometimes identified as Empress Genmyo....
's Daijo-kan continued to organize other cadastral changes in the provincial map of the Nara period
Nara period

The of the history of Japan covers the years from AD 710 to 794. Empress Gemmei established the capital of Heijo-kyo . Except for 5 years , when the capital was briefly moved again, it remained the capital of Japanese civilization until Emperor Kammu established a new capital, Nagaoka-kyo, in 784 before moving to Heian-kyo , or Kyoto, a decade lat...
.

In Wado 6, Mimasaka Province
Mimasaka Province

Mimasaka or Sakushu was a Provinces of Japan of Japan in the part of Honshu that is today northeastern Okayama Prefecture. Mimasaka bordered Bitchu Province, Bizen Province, Harima Province, Hoki Province, and Inaba Provinces....
 was sundered from Bizen Province
Bizen Province

Bizen was a Provinces of Japan of Japan on the Seto Inland Sea side of Honshu, in what is today the southeastern part of Okayama Prefecture. Bizen borders Mimasaka Province, Harima Province, and Bitchu Province provinces....
, and Hyuga Province
Hyuga Province

Hyuga was an old provinces of Japan of Japan on the east coast of Kyushu, corresponding to the modern Miyazaki prefecture. Hyuga bordered on Bungo Province, Higo Province, Osumi Province, and Satsuma Provinces....
 was divided from Osumi Province
Osumi Province

was an old provinces of Japan of Japan in the area that is today the eastern part of Kagoshima prefecture. Osumi bordered on Hyuga Province and Satsuma Province provinces....
.






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was an old province in the area that is today northern Kyoto Prefecture
Kyoto Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Kinki region of the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Kyoto....
 facing the Sea of Japan
Sea of Japan

The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordered by Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Russia. It is referred to in North Korea as the Korea East Sea and in South Korea as the East Sea....
. Tango bordered on Tajima
Tajima Province

was an old provinces of Japan of Japan in the area that is today northern Hyogo Prefecture. Tajima bordered on Harima Province, Inaba Province, Tamba Province, and Tango Province provinces....
, Tamba
Tamba Province

was an Provinces of Japan of Japan. The ambit of its borders encompassed both the central part of modern Kyoto Prefecture and the east-central part of Hyogo Prefecture....
, and Wakasa
Wakasa Province

was an old provinces of Japan in the area that is today southern Fukui prefecture. It is also known as Reinan .The province's ancient capital was at Obama, Fukui, which continued to be the main castle town through the Edo period....
 provinces.

At various times both Maizuru
Maizuru, Kyoto

is a cities of Japan located in Kyoto prefecture, Japan, on an inlet of the Sea of Japan.As of 2008, the city has an estimated population of 89,626 and the population density of 264 persons per km?....
 and Miyazu
Miyazu, Kyoto

is a cities of Japan located in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.As of 2008, the city has an estimated population of 20,354 and the population density of 133.16 persons per km?....
 were the capital and chief town of the province
Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state....
.

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In the 3rd month of the 6th year of the Wado
Wado (era)

was a after Keiun and before Reiki . This period spanned the years from 708 through 715. The reigning emperor was ....
 era (713), the land of Tango Province was administratively separated from Tamba Province
Tamba Province

was an Provinces of Japan of Japan. The ambit of its borders encompassed both the central part of modern Kyoto Prefecture and the east-central part of Hyogo Prefecture....
. In that same year, Empress Gemmei
Empress Gemmei

was the 43rd Emperor of Japan of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. This sovereign is sometimes identified as Empress Genmyo....
's Daijo-kan continued to organize other cadastral changes in the provincial map of the Nara period
Nara period

The of the history of Japan covers the years from AD 710 to 794. Empress Gemmei established the capital of Heijo-kyo . Except for 5 years , when the capital was briefly moved again, it remained the capital of Japanese civilization until Emperor Kammu established a new capital, Nagaoka-kyo, in 784 before moving to Heian-kyo , or Kyoto, a decade lat...
.

In Wado 6, Mimasaka Province
Mimasaka Province

Mimasaka or Sakushu was a Provinces of Japan of Japan in the part of Honshu that is today northeastern Okayama Prefecture. Mimasaka bordered Bitchu Province, Bizen Province, Harima Province, Hoki Province, and Inaba Provinces....
 was sundered from Bizen Province
Bizen Province

Bizen was a Provinces of Japan of Japan on the Seto Inland Sea side of Honshu, in what is today the southeastern part of Okayama Prefecture. Bizen borders Mimasaka Province, Harima Province, and Bitchu Province provinces....
, and Hyuga Province
Hyuga Province

Hyuga was an old provinces of Japan of Japan on the east coast of Kyushu, corresponding to the modern Miyazaki prefecture. Hyuga bordered on Bungo Province, Higo Province, Osumi Province, and Satsuma Provinces....
 was divided from Osumi Province
Osumi Province

was an old provinces of Japan of Japan in the area that is today the eastern part of Kagoshima prefecture. Osumi bordered on Hyuga Province and Satsuma Province provinces....
. In Wado 5 (712), Mutsu Province
Mutsu Province

was an old provinces of Japan of Japan, made up of the present-day Prefectures of Japans of Fukushima Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture, Iwate Prefecture and Aomori Prefecture, and the municipalities of Kazuno, Akita and Kosaka, Akita in Akita Prefecture....
 had been severed from Dewa Province
Dewa Province

is an old provinces of Japan of Japan, comprising modern-day Yamagata Prefecture and Akita Prefecture, except for the city of Kazuno and the town of Kosaka, Akita....
.

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    , Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth
    Julius Klaproth

    Julius Heinrich Klaproth , German linguist, historian, ethnographer, author, Orientalist and explorer.Klaproth was born in Berlin in October of 1783, the son of the chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth....
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