Jiangling ( Chinese : 江陵 ; pinyin : Jiānglíng ; Wade–Giles : Chiang-ling ) is a county in southern Hubei province, People's Republic of China . Administratively, it is under the jurisdiction of Jingzhou City.
5-496: Jiangling may refer to: Places [ edit ] Jiangling County (江陵县), a county under the jurisdiction of Jingzhou City, China Jiangling (江陵), a historical name of Jingzhou , Hubei, China Companies [ edit ] Jiangling Motors (江铃汽车 or 江铃股份), Chinese automobile manufacturer JMCG (江铃集团), Chinese state-owned automotive company Jiangling Holdings (江铃控股), Chinese automotive joint venture Topics referred to by
10-408: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jiangling County The county name derived from the old name of Jingzhou . Liang Dynasty Prince Xiao Yi (蕭繹; 507–555) was made governor of Jingzhou, of which Jiangling was the provincial capital, at about the time that scholar and writer Yan Zhitui (531–590s) was born there. After defeating
15-706: The Hou Jing Rebellion , Xiao Yi took the Liang throne, but instead of moving back to the imperial capital at Jiankang ( Nanjing ), he settled in Jiangling -- although his courtiers had advised otherwise. In 553, he allied with the Western Wei regime to attack his own younger brother, Xiao Ji (蕭紀; 508–553), who had used his own position as governor in Sichuan to declare himself emperor. Unfortunately for
20-622: The Liang Dynasty as a whole, this enabled Western Wei to take the Shu area (Sichuan) and then turn against Xiao Yi, attacking Jiangling in 554 and conquering the city with great brutality. In 1994, Jiangling County was dissolved and converted to two districts ( Jingzhou and Jiangling) of Jingzhou City . The current Jiangling County was established in 1998, when the Jiangling District, then covering 11 outlying towns and townships,
25-414: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Jiangling . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jiangling&oldid=970302437 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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