{
  "system" : "China Historical GIS, Harvard University and Fudan University",
  "license" : "CC BY-NC 4.0",
  "uri" : "https://chgis.hudci.org/tgaz/placename/hvd_87158",
  "sys_id" : "hvd_87158",
  "sys_id of alternate" : "",
  "spellings" : [
    {
      "written form" : "元城縣",
      "script" : "traditional Chinese",
      "exonym language" : "",
      "attested by" : "",
      "note" : ""
    },
    {
      "written form" : "元城县",
      "script" : "simplified Chinese",
      "exonym language" : "",
      "attested by" : "",
      "note" : ""
    },
    {
      "written form" : "Yuancheng Xian",
      "transcribed in" : "Pinyin",
      "attested by" : "",
      "note" : ""
    }
  ],
  "feature_type" : {
    "name" : "县",
    "alternate name" : "縣",
    "transcription" : "xian",
    "English" : "county"
  },
  "temporal" : {
    "begin" : "-202",
    "begin rule" : "0",
    "end" : "0",
    "end rule" : "0"
  },
  "spatial" : {
    "object_type" : "POINT",
    "xy_type" : "point",
    "latitude" : "36.33702",
    "longitude" : "115.29563",
    "source" : "FROM_FD",
    "present_location" : [
      {
        "country code" : "cn",
        "text" : "今河北大名县东北北门口东十二里一带",
        "source" : "Fudan",
        "attestation" : ""
      }
    ]
  },
  "historical_context" : {
    "part of" : [
      {
        "begin year" : "-202",
        "end year" : "211",
        "parent id" : "hvd_87141",
        "name" : "魏郡",
        "transcribed" : "Wei Jun"
      },
      {
        "begin year" : "212",
        "end year" : "220",
        "parent id" : "hvd_87142",
        "name" : "魏郡",
        "transcribed" : "Wei Jun"
      },
      {
        "begin year" : "221",
        "end year" : "264",
        "parent id" : "hvd_115587",
        "name" : "陇州",
        "transcribed" : "Long Zhou"
      },
      {
        "begin year" : "265",
        "end year" : "317",
        "parent id" : "hvd_116059",
        "name" : "阳平郡",
        "transcribed" : "Yangping Jun"
      }
    ],
    "subordinate units" : [
    ],
    "preceded by" : [
    ]
  },
  "data source" : "CHGIS",
  "source note" : "元城县（前202年-）   （起止年份待校正）
汉县。⑴治所在今河北大名县东北北门口东十二里一带。⑵属魏郡。东汉因之。⑶三国魏、西晋属仍阳平郡。⑷

⑴《汉书》卷28下《地理志下》（中华书局，第6册，第1573页）魏郡有元城县。
按：因无具体年份，暂作汉高祖五年置，待考。
⑵《水经注》卷5：大河故渎“又東北逕元城縣故城西北，而至沙丘堰。《史記》曰：魏武侯公子元食邑于此，故縣氏焉。郭東有五鹿墟，墟之左右多陷城。《公羊》曰：襲，邑也。《説》曰：襲，陷矣。《郡國志》曰：五鹿，故沙鹿，有沙亭。周穆王喪盛姬，東征舍于五鹿，其女叔?屆此思哭，是曰女?之丘，為沙鹿之異名也。”（《水经注校释》，第75页）
嘉庆《清一统志》卷35：“元城故城，有三，皆在今元城縣東。漢初置元城縣，在沙麓旁。應卲曰：魏武侯公子元食邑于此，故縣氏焉。歴晉、魏至北齊始廢。隋開皇中復置。唐又遷此。《舊唐書?地理志》：隋元城縣治古殷城，貞觀十七年併入貴鄉。聖厯二年，又分貴鄉、莘縣置，治王莽城。開元十三年，移治州郭下。古殷城，在朝城東北十一里。舊《志》：王莽城，在舊州城東北二十餘里，王莽河北岸，亦謂之故元城。五代梁貞明二年，晉王自貝州還擊劉鄩，追至故元城，是也。”（第12册）
河北省地方志编纂委员会编：《河北省志》第2卷《建置志》：“治今大名县大名镇东北。”（河北人民出版社，1993年，第22页）
⑶《续汉书?郡国志》，《后汉书》，第12册，第3431页。
⑷《晋书》卷14《地理上》，第2册，第417页。",
  "source uri" : ""
}