Echigo Province
province of Japan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Lang/data/is latn data' not found. was an old province in Japan in the area of Niigata Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1]
The province had borders with Uzen, Iwashiro, Kōzuke, Shinano, and Etchū Provinces.
History
In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Echigo Province were reformed in the 1870s.[2]
Geography
Echigo faced the Sea of Japan.
Shrines and Temples
Iyahiko jinju and Koko jinja were the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) of Echigo.[3]
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