Saitama gun
Saitama ( Japanese 埼 玉 郡 , - gun ) was a district of the Japanese province of Musashi in the east of today's Saitama prefecture ( Saitama-ken ) from ancient times until the 19th century .
One of the earliest mentions of Saitama is in the dictionary Wamyō Ruijushō , published in 938 . In the late Edo period it was partly Bakufu and Hatamoto country ( Bakuryō ) or owned by the Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa . Larger parts belonged to the heartland of the principalities of Oshi (under the Okudaira-Matsudaira ) and Iwatsuki (under the Ōoka ) around the castles of the same name in the district. After the Meiji Restoration , the county became part of the new Saitama Prefecture in 1871. During the modernization of the district administrations in 1879, it was divided into the districts of North Saitama ( Kita-Saitama ) with administrative headquarters in Narita (later part of Oshi, now Gyōda ) and South Saitama ( Minami-Saitama ) with the county town of Iwatsuki (since 2005 Part of Saitama City).
In the 20th century, a large part of the successor counties became urban districts. Kita-Saitama expired as a geographical unit in 2010 with the incorporation of the last parish into an independent city; Since 2012, Minami-Satama has consisted of a single community, the city of Miyashiro .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 和 名 抄 郡名 一 覧 （東海 道） . (No longer available online.) 群 馬 県 立 女子 大学 北 川 研究室 作成 , archived from the original on September 17, 2013 ; Retrieved May 12, 2014 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
