Tongshan District ( simplified Chinese : 铜山区 ; traditional Chinese : 銅山區 ; pinyin : Tóngshān Qū ; lit. 'bronze mountain'), formerly Tongshan County ( 铜山县 ; 銅山縣 ; Tóngshān Xiàn ) is one of six districts of Xuzhou , Jiangsu province, People's Republic of China, bordering Anhui and Shandong provinces.
3-548: Tongshan was originally knows as Pengcheng County, the latter merged into Xuzhou during the Yuan and the Ming dynasties, also in the early Qing dynasty. In 1733, as Xuzhou became a prefecture ( fu ) from an independent department ( zhili zhou ), its department proper was separated and renamed "Tongshan" (literally: copper-filled hill), which derives from an island in the Weishan Lake . Tongshan
6-773: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Weishan Lake Nansi Lake ( Chinese : 南 四 湖 ; pinyin : Nánsì Hú ; lit. 'Southern Four Lakes'), or Weishan Lake , administrated by Weishan County and located in Shandong Province in China , is the largest freshwater lake in the north of the country. It consists of four connected lakes: Weishan ( Chinese : 微 山 湖 ; pinyin : Wēishān Hú ), Zhaoyang ( Chinese : 昭 阳 湖 ; pinyin : Zhāoyáng Hú ), Nanyang ( Chinese : 南 阳 湖 ; pinyin : Nányáng Hú ), Dushan ( Chinese : 独 山 湖 ; pinyin : Dúshān Hú ). It
9-467: Was once the metropolitan county ( shou xian ) of Xuzhou, thus it referred to the prefecture since 1912, until the Japanese Army captured the county and made Xuzhou City its urban area in 1939. The county was dissolved in 1952, but was restored in the next year. It became a district since 2010. In the present day, Tongshan District has 8 subdistricts and 20 towns. This Jiangsu location article
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