Suíyáng

Suíyáng lies in the mountain country of northern Guizhou, near the upper reaches of the Fúróng River. An earlier county of that name stood farther east and was eventually abandoned. Following the Ming victory over the hereditary rulers of Bōzhōu, a new Suíyáng County was established here in 1601 from lands of the Zhēnzhōu native chiefship. It came under the new Zūnyì Prefecture, then administered as part of Sichuan; the prefecture passed to Guizhou under the Qing in 1728.