Dépíng

Deping is an old county town on the flat country northeast of Linyi in northern Shandong. It acquired its name when the earlier Pingchang County was renamed under the Later Tang. After a period of abolition, the Song restored the county in 1099 and placed it under Dezhou. Through the Ming and Qing it remained part of the Jinan administration, serving the villages and cultivated land of the surrounding plain.