:the characters æ³å· are also used for the name of the chinese city of quanzhou. thumb|right|map of japanese provinces (1868) with izumi province highlighted.  was a province of japan.nussbaum, louis-frÃ©dÃ©ric. (2005). "provinces and prefectures" in . it is also referred to as . it lay in kinai, and its area today composes the south-western part of osaka prefecture (south of the yamato river; not including the city of osaka itself). the ÅshÅji in sakai was the border with settsu province, until the beginning of the meiji period, when the boundary was changed to be at the yamato river. izumi was classified as a lower province in the engishiki. the northern part was called , and the southern part . izumi included the southern portion of the large seaport of sakai, and was usually held by whomever ruled osaka castle and settsu province. ==name== the name âizumiâ means , but is written with two characters, the character for  being prepended due to an imperial edict in 713. this character does not play into the reading. because the provincial capital was in modern fuchÅ« town, izumi city, osaka prefecture, the city adopted the name of the province as its name. ==development== according to the shoku nihongi, the izumi and hine districts were separated from kawachi province on 23 april 716; moreover, on 8 may that same year, the Åtori district was also separated from kawachi, and the three districts constructed . the imperial villa of  was in izumi, and it seems that this has something to do with the unusual classification of : yoshino-gen was the only other province with this designation. afterwards, on 15 september 740, it was abolished and merged back into kawachi province. on 30 may 757, it was re-established with a normal province designation . according to the nihongi ryaku, on 21 april 825, the four settsu province districts of higashinari, nishinari, kudara, and sumiyoshi were incorporated into izumi province, but the residents were opposed to it, so they were restored to settsu on 8 august the same year. in the [[edo period]
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