Jiangnanxi Circuit

Tang China and Tang provinces

Jiangnanxidao (Chinese: 江南西道, Circuit of Western Jiangnan; Gan: Kongnomsitau) was a southern province of Tang Empire. It corresponds to part of present-day Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Anhui. Jiangnanxidao is the origin where the name "Jiangxi" derives from, and its administrative territories also roughly represent nowadays Gan-speaking areas in China.

Jiangnanxidao was split from Jiangnandao in 733 with its capital located in "Hongzhou" (洪州, Gan: Fungjiu) which is the current Nanchang. And Jiangnanxidao was divided into nineteen prefectures, namely:[1]

References

  1. Xu Huailin (1993). Jiangxi Tongzhi. Jiangxi University Press. p. 118. ISBN 9787810331432.

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