Jiande

Jiande is a county-level city in Zhejiang Province, China. It is under the administration of Hangzhou. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jiande was the capital of Yanzhou Prefecture. On account of this, Jiande was often referred to as Yanzhou Fu. A transcription commonly seen in both French and English writing of the time was Yen-tcheou-fou, derived from French missionary writing.