A brief history of Nanjing's historical place names

The administrative setup of the present-day Nanjing area should be based on the Jinlingyi established by the Chu State during the Warring States Period. Since then, "Jinling" has become the common name of the ancient Nanjing area. Prior to this, the Yecheng and Yuecheng built by Wu and Yue in the urban area of present-day Nanjing in the Spring and Autumn Period could not be regarded as administrative settings. In addition, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Guo had set up Tangyi and Sezhuyi respectively in Liuhe and Gaochun, the suburbs of Nanjing, which were also county-level administrative settings at that time.

The Qin Dynasty set up three counties in the hometown of Jinling, Moling, Danyang and Jiangcheng, and their county governance was respectively near Moling Pass in present-day Jiangning County, Xiaodanyang in Jiangning County and present-day Qixia Mountain, all of which were under the jurisdiction of the county, and Tangyi County was under the jurisdiction of Donghai County. During the Han Dynasty, the above four counties were still retained, and Hushu County (the county was governed in Hushu Town, Jiangning County), of which Moling, Danyang, Jiangcheng, and Hushu were all under the jurisdiction of Danyang County of Yangzhou Thorn History Department (the county was governed in Xuancheng City, Anhui Province), and Tangyi was under the jurisdiction of Linhuai County of Xuzhou Thorn History Department.

During the period of the Three Kingdoms, Sun Wu changed the Moling Tomb to "Jianye", which means that it will "build the great cause of the emperor" here, and set it as the capital, and moved the Yangzhou Thorn History Station and Danyang County to Jianye. At the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty, the reconstruction industry was "Jianye", and at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, Ye was rebuilt as "Jiankang", so the capital of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties (Song, Qi, Liang, Chen) was called Jiankang, and it was also the seat of Yangzhou Thorn History and Danyang County. Therefore, the Jinling of the Six Dynasties can be used in the name of the capital - Jianye and Jiankang, and can also be used in the name of the state - Yangzhou, and can also be used in the name of the county - Danyang, but "Jianye" is only the name of the Western Jin Dynasty for more than 30 years, and the Yangzhou Thorn History Station and Danyang County in the Western Jin Dynasty are also in Jianye.

During the Six Dynasties, the county and county levels in Jinling changed greatly. Sun Wu had Jianye County, Danyang County, Hushu Diannong Captain, Jiangcheng Diannong Captain; In the Western Jin Dynasty, there were Jianye County (later renamed Jiankang County), Moling County, Jiangning County (first known as Linjiang County), Danyang County, Hushu County, Jiangcheng County, and Tangyi County; In addition to retaining the counties set up by the Western Jin Dynasty, the Eastern Jin Dynasty also set up overseas Chinese counties to settle the southward migrants from the Central Plains, such as Langya, Donghai, Dongping, Lanling, Wei, Guangchuan, Gaoyang, Tangyi and other counties, Huaide (later changed to Fei County), Linyi, Yangdu, Jiqiu, Feixiang, Yuancheng, Guangchuan, Beixincheng, Bolu, Tangyi and other counties; At the beginning of the Liu and Song dynasties in the Southern Dynasty, Jiankang County, Moling County, Danyang County, Jiangning County, and Hushu County were retained under the jurisdiction of Danyang County, and Yangdu County, Fei County, Jiqiu County, Linyi County, and Jiangcheng County were under the jurisdiction of Nanlangya County. There was no change in the Southern Qi Dynasty; Xiao Liang set up Tongxia County, waste Hushu County, and relocated Fei County, and changed South Langya County to Langya County, divided Danyang, South Danyang County, Langya County in Jiangcheng, jurisdiction over Jiangcheng, Linyi, Fei County, Danyang County in Jiankang, jurisdiction over Jiankang, Moling, Tongxia County, South Danyang County in Jiangning, jurisdiction over Jiangning, Danyang County; Chen Shi abolished Nandanyang County, abolished Langya County, and newly established Jianxing County, with jurisdiction over Jiangcheng, Linyi, Tongxia, Hushu, Jian'an, and Wushan six counties, and Danyang County under the jurisdiction of Jiankang, Moling, Jiangning, Danyang, and Fei five counties.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the administrative setup of Jinling changed the most, mainly because the Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor's Office was moved from Jinling to Jiangdu, Jinling was demoted to a general prefecture and county, and the names and affiliations of prefectures and counties were repeatedly changed. At that time, the common name was "Jinling" was the most commonly used, the Sui Dynasty was often called "Jiangzhou", and the Tang Dynasty was often called "Baixia", "Shangyuan", "Jiangning", "Shengzhou" and so on. Specifically, after the Sui army destroyed Chen, the two counties of Danyang and Jianye were abolished, and the counties of Jiankang, Danyang, Fei, Jiangcheng, Linyi, Tongxia, and Hushu were abolished, and only Jiangning County was retained, and Lishui County was under the jurisdiction of Jiangzhou, which was located in Jinling Stone Town, and Tangyi County was renamed Liuhe County, which was under the jurisdiction of Jiangdu County. When Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was renamed, Jiangzhou was renamed Danyang County. In the Tang Dynasty, Jiangning County was changed to Naturalized County, then changed Naturalized County to Jinling County, then changed Jinling County to Baixia County, re-changed Baixia County to Jiangning County, and finally changed Jiangning County to Shangyuan County, and was subordinate to Runzhou, which was successively located in Yanling (now Yanling Town, Danyang City) and Dantu (now Zhenjiang City), and the county was successively set up in Dantu and Danyang County and Jiangning County in Jiangning, and the state was successively located in Jiangning and Shangyuan. Shengzhou has jurisdiction over Shangyuan (Jiangning), Lishui, Liyang, Jurong four counties. Liuhe County is under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou.

During the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, Yang Wu set up the Shengzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in Jinling, and divided it into Shangyuan and Jiangning counties, and changed the Jiezhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to Jinling Mansion and set it as the Western Capital. After the founding of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the capital was Jinling, and Jinling Mansion was changed to Jiangning Mansion, which governed Shangyuan, Jiangning, Lishui and other counties, and set up Xiongzhou in Liuhe.

At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, Jiangning Mansion was changed to Shengzhou, and soon it was renamed Jiangning Mansion, with jurisdiction over Shangyuan, Jiangning, Lishui, Liyang, Jurong and other counties. The Southern Song Dynasty changed Jiangning Mansion to Jiankang Mansion, and successively served as the seat of Jiangnan East Road and Jiangnan Road (equivalent to the provincial level of the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties), and Jiankang Mansion still governed the five counties of Jiangning Mansion in the Northern Song Dynasty. Liuhe County belongs to Zhenzhou.

In the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, it was still called Jiankang Mansion, and it was renamed Jiankang Road, and then it was also called Jiqing Road, which successively belonged to Jianghuai Province and Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province, and once became the governing place of the Jiangnan Zhudao Imperial Historical Observatory that governed Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Huguang provinces. Jiqing Road has jurisdiction over Shangyuan, Jiangning, Jurong three counties and Lishui Prefecture and Liyang Prefecture. Liuhe County belongs to Yangzhou Road.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, in 1368, Yingtianfu (Zhu Yuanzhang changed Jiqing Road to Yingtianfu in 1356) as Nanjing, in 1378 Nanjing as the Beijing Division, in 1421 Ming Chengzu took Beijing as the Beijing Division, restored the name of Nanjing, as the capital. Ying Tianfu in the early Ming Dynasty jurisdiction of Shangyuan, Jiangning, Lishui, Jiangpu, Jurong, Liyang six counties, later added Liuhe, Gaochun two counties.

In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, Nanjing was changed to Jiangnan Province, and Tianfu was changed to Jiangning Mansion, and the eight counties under its jurisdiction remained the same. Later, Jiangnan Province was divided into Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, and Jiangning Prefecture was under the jurisdiction of the governor of Jiangsu, whose administrative office was located in Suzhou, but the yamen of the governor of Liangjiang, which governed Jiangsu, Anhui and Jiangxi provinces, was located in Jiangning.

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Jiangning Prefecture was changed to Tianjing, and Tianjing Province was established with Tianjing as the center, and Tianpu Province was established with Jiangpu as the center. Later, the Qing army captured Tianjing, and it was renamed Jiangning Mansion as before.

After the Xinhai Revolution, the capital of the Republic of China was set in Jiangning Mansion, and Jiangning Mansion was changed to Nanjing Mansion, and the two counties of Shangyuan and Jiangning were abolished. After moving the capital to Beijing, Jiangsu Province moved from Suzhou to Nanjing, abolished Nanjing Mansion, set up Jiangning County, and set up Jinling Road in Jiangning, with jurisdiction over Jiangning, Jiangpu, Liuhe, Gaochun, Lishui, Liyang, Jurong, Dantu, Danyang, Jintan, Yangzhong County. In 1927, the Nationalist Government designated Nanjing as the capital, abolished Jinling Road, Nanjing was successively called "Nanjing City", "Nanjing Special City", "Nanjing Municipality" and "Capital City", etc., and the jurisdiction was within Guo outside Nanjing City and Pukou Town in Jiangpu County; Jiangning County is under the jurisdiction of the Jiangsu Provincial Government. In 1929, the Jiangsu Provincial Government moved from Nanjing to Zhenjiang.

In the early days of the People's Republic of China, Nanjing was still a municipality directly under the central government. In 1952, it was changed to a municipality under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province and was the residence of the Provincial People's Government. Since 1957, it has jurisdiction over three counties of Jiangning, Jiangpu and Liuhe, and since 1983, it has added two counties of Lishui and Gaochun.

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