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Dingzhou, or Tingchow in Postal Map Romanization, and previously referred to as Ding County or Dingxian, is a county-degree city inside the prefecture-stage metropolis of Baoding, Hebei Province. As of 2009, Dingzhou had a populace of 1.2 million. Dingzhou has three subdistricts, 13 towns, eight townships, and 1 ethnic township.Dingzhou is about halfway between Baoding and Shijiazhuang, 196 kilometers southwest of Beijing, and 68 kilometers northeast of Shijiazhuang.

Dingzhou become at first called Lunu in early imperial China. A tomb about four kilometers southwest of Dingzhou from 55 bce changed into discovered and excavated in 1973. It contained numerous fragments of Han literature, along with manuscripts of Confucius's Analects, the Taoist Wenzi, and the Six Secret Teachings, a navy treatise. Dingzhou took its present name around 400 ce when it have become the seat of Ding Prefecture beneath the Northern Wei, displacing the earlier An Prefecture.

In the mid-sixth century, its territory held 834,211 humans residing in 177,500 families. Under the Sui, the seat of Boling Commandery at gift-day Anping was renamed "Gaoyang. In 607, Dingzhou then became the eponymous seat of a new Boling commandery and retained that call and status below the Tang until it again to the call Dingzhou between 621 and 742 and once more after 758. Its territory held best 86,869 humans in 25,637 households in 639 but recovered to 496,676 human beings in 78,090 households by 742.

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