{
  "system" : "China Historical GIS, Harvard University and Fudan University",
  "license" : "CC BY-NC 4.0",
  "uri" : "https://chgis.hudci.org/tgaz/placename/hvd_70060",
  "sys_id" : "hvd_70060",
  "sys_id of alternate" : "",
  "spellings" : [
    {
      "written form" : "西縣",
      "script" : "traditional Chinese",
      "exonym language" : "",
      "attested by" : "",
      "note" : ""
    },
    {
      "written form" : "西县",
      "script" : "simplified Chinese",
      "exonym language" : "",
      "attested by" : "",
      "note" : ""
    },
    {
      "written form" : "Xi Xian",
      "transcribed in" : "Pinyin",
      "attested by" : "",
      "note" : ""
    }
  ],
  "feature_type" : {
    "name" : "县",
    "alternate name" : "縣",
    "transcription" : "xian",
    "English" : "county"
  },
  "temporal" : {
    "begin" : "-221",
    "begin rule" : "4",
    "end" : "279",
    "end rule" : "4"
  },
  "spatial" : {
    "object_type" : "POINT",
    "xy_type" : "point",
    "latitude" : "34.40757",
    "longitude" : "105.87112",
    "source" : "FROM_FD",
    "present_location" : [
      {
        "country code" : "cn",
        "text" : "今甘肃天水市西南百二十里",
        "source" : "Fudan",
        "attestation" : ""
      }
    ]
  },
  "historical_context" : {
    "part of" : [
      {
        "begin year" : "-221",
        "end year" : "-115",
        "parent id" : "hvd_112727",
        "name" : "陇西郡",
        "transcribed" : "Longxi Jun"
      },
      {
        "begin year" : "-221",
        "end year" : "23",
        "parent id" : "hvd_112732",
        "name" : "陇西郡",
        "transcribed" : "Longxi Jun"
      },
      {
        "begin year" : "-114",
        "end year" : "57",
        "parent id" : "hvd_112732",
        "name" : "陇西郡",
        "transcribed" : "Longxi Jun"
      },
      {
        "begin year" : "24",
        "end year" : "57",
        "parent id" : "hvd_112732",
        "name" : "陇西郡",
        "transcribed" : "Longxi Jun"
      },
      {
        "begin year" : "58",
        "end year" : "279",
        "parent id" : "hvd_115309",
        "name" : "汉阳郡",
        "transcribed" : "Hanyang Jun"
      }
    ],
    "subordinate units" : [
    ],
    "preceded by" : [
    ]
  },
  "data source" : "CHGIS",
  "source note" : "西县（前221—279） 
秦置西县①。西汉属陇西郡②。东汉永平元年（58 年）属汉阳郡。西晋太康元年（280 年）改为始昌县③。

①《史记》卷57《绛侯周勃世家》：“（周勃）破西丞（《集解》徐广曰：“天水有西县。”《正义》、《括地志》云：“西县故城在秦州上邽县西南九十里，本汉西县地。”破西县丞。）”中华书局1959 年版，第2067 页。段案：此为秦末汉初之际，则西县必置于秦时。此处暂以秦朝建立为置县之时。
②嘉庆《重修一统志》卷255 巩昌府西和县条：“汉陇西郡西县及武都郡地。晋改置始昌县，属天水郡，后废。” 
③《读书方舆纪要》卷59《陕西八》秦州西县城条：“永平以后，县属汉阳郡。晋改为始昌县，属天水郡。后魏时，改置杨廉县。后周废。”中华书局2005 年版，第2836 页。",
  "source uri" : ""
}