Zhàozhōu

Zhaozhou was a name carried across the northern Songhua plain through several changes of rule. The Jin established a prefecture of that name in 1130, at an older settlement known as Chuhe. After its abandonment during the Mongol conquest, the Yuan established Zhaozhou farther north, where a military command and a relay station served the territory of descendants of the Mongol prince Otchigin. A Zhaozhou station continued to be recorded under the Ming in the country north of the Songhua.