Iwaki Province (1869)
Iwaki ( Japanese 磐 城 国 , Iwaki no kuni ), also Banshū ( 磐 州 ), was a province of Japan during the early Meiji period .
It extended over the eastern half of what is now Fukushima Prefecture and the southern part of what is now Miyagi Prefecture . Together with the neighboring province of Iwashiro to the west , it formed the central part of Fukushima Prefecture. More precisely, today's Date and Adachi counties in the north belonged to Iwashiro, Higashishirakawa and Nishishirakawa in the south to Iwaki (with the exception of the western part of the village Taishin (today: Shirakawa ) which belonged to Iwashiro) with the Abukuma in the middle as a border river. The districts of Watari , Igu , Katta , and the cities of Shiroishi and Kakuda , which are located in Miyagi Prefecture today, belonged to the neighboring province of Rikuzen in the north .
The 1872 census ( Jinshin Koseki ) counted 348,608 inhabitants for Iwaki.
history
In 718, the provinces of Iwase and Iwaki were separated from Michinoku (Mutsu) , but they were reintegrated a few years later. The area of this earlier province was roughly the same as that of later Iwaki province, except that it was narrower and did not extend to the Abukuma basin .
On January 19, 1869 (Meiji 1/12/7), the provinces of Iwaki, Iwashiro , Rikuchū (German "Middle Mutsu") and Rikuzen (German "Front Mutsu") were separated from the Mutsu Province.
Fiefdom
The following fiefs ( han ) were in Iwaki :
- Sōma-Nakamura ( 相 馬 中 村 藩 ) / Sōma ( 相 馬 藩 ) (1602–1871)
- Miharu ( 三 春 藩 ; 1627–1871)
- Moriyama ( 守 山 藩 ; 1661–1870; branch of Mito- han in Hitachi Province )
- Iwaki-Taira ( 磐 城 平 藩 ; 1602–1871)
- Tanagura ( 棚 倉 藩 ; 1603–1871)
- Yunagaya ( 湯 長 谷 藩 ; 1676–1871)
- Izumi ( 泉 藩 ; 1634–1871)
The following were in the Iwaki area prior to its establishment:
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Shirakawa ( 白河 藩 ; 1627–1868)
- Shirakawa-Shinden ( 白河 新 田 藩 ; 1688–1728)
- Asakawa ( 浅川 藩 ) (1662–1681)
- Kubota ( 窪 田 藩 ; 1622–1684)
Counties
The following counties ( gun ) were in Iwaki :
- Igu-gun ( 伊 具 郡 )
- Ishikawa-gun ( 石川 郡 )
- Iwaki-gun ( 磐 城 郡 )
- Iwasaki-gun ( 磐 前 郡 )
- Uda-gun ( 宇 多 郡 )
- Ring- tailed lemur ( 刈 田 郡 )
- Kikuta-gun ( 菊 多 郡 )
- Shirakawa-gun ( 白 川 郡 )
- Shirakawa-gun ( 白河 郡 )
- Shineha-gun ( 標 葉 郡 )
- Naraha-gun ( 楢 葉 郡 )
- Tamura-gun ( 田村 郡 )
- Namekata-gun ( 行 方 郡 )
- Watari-gun ( 亘 理 郡 )