| Lu Prefecture | |||||||||
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| Map: | 260px | ||||||||
| Preceded By: | Lujiang Commandery | ||||||||
| End: | 1277 (Yuan dynasty) | ||||||||
| Replace: | Luzhou Route | ||||||||
| Populationfirst: | 205,396 | ||||||||
| Populationfirstyear: | 740s or 750s | ||||||||
| Populationsecond: | 178,359 | ||||||||
| Populationsecondyear: | 1100s | ||||||||
| Membership Title1: | Circuit | ||||||||
Luzhou or Lu Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China centering on modern Hefei, Anhui, China. It existed (intermittently) from 581 to 1277.
Lu Prefecture administered the following counties (Chinese: 縣) through history:
| Sui dynasty | Song dynasty | Modern location | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hefei (Chinese: 合肥) | Hefei (City Proper) | |||
| 2 | Shen (Chinese: 慎) | Feidong County | |||
| 3 | Xiang'an (Chinese: 襄安) | Chao (Chinese: 巢) | administered by Wuwei Prefecture | Chaohu | |
| 4 | Lujiang (Chinese: 廬江) | Lujiang County | |||
| 5 | Shucheng (Chinese: 舒城) | Shucheng County | |||