{{Short description|Historical administrative division in Guangxi, China}} {{infobox historic subdivision |Name=Bai Prefecture (白州) |AltName=Nanchang Commandery (南昌郡) |Map= |preceded_by=Nan Prefecture (南州) |Start=623 (Tang dynasty) |End=1136 (Song dynasty) |PopulationFirst=9,498<ref>{{harvnb|''Xin Tang Shu''|loc=[https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/新唐書/卷043上 ch. 43.]}}</ref> |PopulationFirstYear=740s or 750s |PopulationSecond=Unknown, 4,589 households<ref>{{harvnb|''Song Shi''|loc=[http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/宋史/卷090 ch. 90.]}}</ref> |PopulationSecondYear=1070s or 1080s |membership_title1=Circuit |membership1={{Unbulleted list|'''Tang dynasty''':|Lingnan Circuit|'''Song dynasty''':|Guangnan Circuit|Guangnan West Circuit}} }} {{Chinese|c={{linktext|白|州}}|p=Bái Zhōu|altname=Nanchang Commandery|c2={{linktext|南|昌|郡}}|p2=Nánchāng Jùn}} '''Baizhou''' or '''Bai Prefecture''' was a ''zhou'' (prefecture) in imperial China in modern southern Guangxi, China. It existed intermittently from 623 to 1136, and between 742 and 758 it was known as '''Nanchang Commandery'''.<ref>{{harvnb|Shi|loc=p. 783.}}</ref>
==Counties== Bai Prefecture administered the following counties (縣) through history: *Bobai (博白), roughly modern Bobai County.<ref>{{harvnb|Shi|loc=p. 2494.}}</ref> *Nanchang (南昌)<ref>{{harvnb|Shi|loc=p. 1803.}}</ref> *Jianning (建寧)<ref>{{harvnb|Shi|loc=p. 1709.}}</ref> *Zhouluo (周羅)<ref>{{harvnb|Shi|loc=p. 1623.}}</ref> Nanchang, Jianning, and Zhouluo, all abolished by the Song dynasty in 972, are probably all in modern Bobai County.
==References== {{reflist|2}} * {{cite book|editor-last=Shi Weile|year=2005|title=Zhongguo Lishi Diming Da Cidian ''(中国历史地名大词典)''|trans-title=Large Dictionary of Chinese Historical Place Names|publisher=China Social Sciences Press|isbn=7-5004-4929-1|language=zh|ref={{harvid|Shi}}}} *{{in lang|zh}} {{cite book|editor-last=Ouyang Xiu|title=Xin Tang Shu|trans-title=New Book of Tang|year=1060|ref={{harvid|''Xin Tang Shu''}}|display-editors=etal}} *{{in lang|zh}} {{cite book|editor-last=Toqto'a|title=Song Shi|trans-title=History of Song|year=1345|ref={{harvid|''Song Shi''}}|display-editors=etal}}
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