Wen Prefecture (Zhejiang)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Wen Prefecture | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 溫州 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 温州 | ||||||||
| |||||||||
Wenzhou or Wen Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China, centering on modern Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. It existed (intermittently) from 675 to 1265, when the Song dynasty renamed it Rui'an Prefecture.
The modern prefecture-level city Wenzhou, created in 1949, retains its name.
