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Chaozhou (潮州 lit. "Tide Prefecture"; pinyin: Cháozhou, Wade-Giles: Ch'ao˛-chouš, Postal Romanization: Chiuchow; native Minnan dialect: Teochew', also Tiuchiu and Teochiu is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province, China. Population 1.24 million.
Chaozhou is located in the easternmost part of Guangdong Province, north of the coastal Shantou City. It is located in the north of the delta of the Hanjiang River (韓江), which flows through the city.
In 214 BC, Chaozhou was an undeveloped and unnamed part of Nanhai Commandry (南海郡) of the Qin Empire. In 331 (during the Eastern Jin Dynasty), Haiyang District (海陽縣) was established as a part of Dongguan Commandry (東官郡).
Dongguan Commandry was renamed to Yi'an Commandry (義安郡) in 413. The commandry became a prefecture in 590Events September 3 St. Gregory I becomes Pope. Persian king Hormizd IV succeeded by Khosrau II. The Byzantine Empire begins a war with Persia. Saint Columbanus founds the monastery of Luxeuil. Owain mab Urien becomes king of Rheged (approximate date).; first as Xun Prefecture (循州, Xunzhou), then as Chao Prefecture (潮州, Chaozhou) in the following year. In 1914Events January 4 77 seal hunters freeze to death on ice near Labrador January 5 Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor February 13 Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Compos, the Republic of ChinaThe Republic of China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: ; Wade-Giles: Chung-hua Min-kuo, Tongyong Pinyin: JhongHua MinGuo, Hanyu Pinyin: Zhonghua Minguo) is a de facto sovereign state that currently administers the island groups of Taiwan, Peng government combined Chao and Xun prefectures into Chaoxun Prefecture or Chaoxun CircuitA circuit is an appellate judicial district among the courts of many nations. The name comes from an era in which justices would ride within a area hearing cases. Circuit ( ; Chinese: dao Japanese: do was a historical political division of China, and is s (潮循道).
For a short while in Sui DynastyThe Sui Dynasty ( Hanyu Pinyin: Sui, Tongyong Pinyin: Suei, 581- 618) followed the Southern and Northern Dynasties and preceded the Tang Dynasty in China. It ended nearly four centuries of rule by warlords. Bodhisattva, sandstone, Tianlongshan Grottoes, S and early Tang DynastyTang Dynasty ( 618- 907) followed the Sui Dynasty and preceded the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms Period in China. The dynasty was interrupted by the Second Zhou Dynasty (690-705) when Empress Wu Zetian seized the throne. The Tang dynasty, with its c, Haiyang District was Yian District (義安縣). The district's name had been Haiyang until 1914Events January 4 77 seal hunters freeze to death on ice near Labrador January 5 Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor February 13 Copyright: In New York City the ASCAP (for American Society of Compos, when it was renamed to Chao'an County (潮安縣) to avoid ambiguity with the Haiyang County of Shandong Province.
The seat of the 1951Events January events January 9 United Nations headquarters officially opens ( New York City). January 15 Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in We Guangdong People's government was at Chao'an County, a part of it was created as Chao'an City in 1953 and later that year renamed to Chaozhou City (county-level). In 1955, the provincial seat is moved to Shantou. Chaozhou City was abolished five years later, and remade again in 1979. In 1983, the situation was reversed, with Chao'an abolished and made a part of Chaozhou City. Chaozhou was made a provincially administered city in January 1989, and a vice-prefecture-level city in January 1990.
Together, Chaozhou and Shantou are called "Chao-Shan" (潮汕), and Chaoshan has been the name of the joint political administrative area from 1958 until 1983. For the next five years, Shantou City was a higher-level city that contained Chaozhou. As of now, Chaozhou and Shantou are equal in status.