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Bozhou City administers three counties and one district:
The four county-level entities encompass 107 towns, which are divided into 2625 villages.
Bozhou was, in addition to being a prefecture in the Tang Dynasty (Bo-zhou), once Qiao Commandry (谯郡) in the Sui Dynasty.
In 1355, during the Mongol Dynasty, Chao Lin'er (朝林兒) was proclaimed by Liu Futong (劉複通) to be the Emperor of Great Song (大宋, referring to the dead Song Empire) with the era nameEra system Era name was an East Asian imperial practice of numbering years in an emperor's reign. It originated as a motto or slogan chosen by the emperor. Different East Asian countries utilized slightly different systems: Chinese era name Japanese era n Longfeng (龍鳳 " DragonThe Chinese dragon (; pinyin: long2; Cantonese: loong; Hokkien: leng) is a mythical creature. Long a potent symbol of auspicious power in Chinese folklore and art, it is the embodiment of the concept of yang and associated with the weather and water as th and fenghuangFenghuang ( pinyin: feng4 huang2) are mythological Chinese birds that reign over all other birds. The males are called Feng and the females the Huang; in modern times, however, such a distinction of gender is sometimes blurred into a single female entity,"). Chao was nicknamed "The Little Ming King" (小明王).
In 1368Events Timur ascends throne of Samarkand. Restoration of the Great Wall of China. Hongwu establishes the Ming Dynasty in China. Some Chinese scholars consider this the end of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty. Emperor Chokei ascends to the throne of Japan Births Fe, Bo Prefecture was lower in status to a district (县). In 1496, it was re-made a prefecture. And lowered to be a county in 1912: Bo County. In May 1986, it was upgraded to a county-level city administered by Fuyang Region (阜阳地区): Bozhou-shi. In 1996, Bozhou was upgraded to provincially directly administered city (省直辖市), administered by Fuyang City on behalf of the province. The province directly administered Bozhou since February 1998. In June 2000, Bozhou was made a regional city (地级市), or provincially administered city (省辖市).
