Zhou

Zhou may refer to:

==Chinese history== Predynastic Zhou ( or ; –), the state in modern Shaanxi which established the Zhou dynasty Zhou dynasty (; –256 BC), a dynasty of China controlling Shaanxi, the North China Plain, and its periphery Western Zhou (; –771 BC), ruling from present-day Xi'an Eastern Zhou (; 770–256 BC), overseeing numerous petty states from present-day Luoyang ( or ; –after 580 BC), located in Zhoucheng (present-day Fengxiang District), the fief granted to Duke of Zhou's younger son Duke Ping of Zhou and his descendants, lasting at least until 580 BC under Chu Western Zhou (state) (; 440–256 BC), one of the Warring States in modern western Henan Eastern Zhou (state) (; 367–249 BC), one of the Warring States in modern eastern Henan Northern Zhou (; 557–581), a Xianbei state ruling western China from present-day Xi'an during the Northern and Southern Dynasties Wu Zhou (; 690–705), a brief interregnum of the Tang dynasty, ruling from present-day Luoyang Later Zhou (; 951–960), briefly ruling most of northern China from Kaifeng during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period Zhou (Zhang Shicheng) (; 1354–1357), a state founded by Zhang Shicheng during the Red Turban Rebellion at the end of the Yuan dynasty Great Zhou (; 1678–1681), a state founded by Wu Sangui during the Qing dynasty