Wei Prefecture (Shandong)
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| Wei Prefecture | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 濰州 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 潍州 | ||||||||
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Weizhou or Wei Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China centering on modern Weifang, Shandong, China. It existed (intermittently) from 596 until 1376 not long after the founding of the Ming dynasty.