District prior the Meiji period Izumi District (出水郡) Kagoshima District (鹿児島郡) - absorbed Kitaōsumi District (北大隅郡) of Ōsumi Province and Taniyama District of...

northeast, and Satsuma Province to the northwest. Its abbreviated form was Gūshū (隅州). In terms of the Gokishichidō system, Ōsumi was one of the provinces of...

District) Taniyama (谿山郡) and Kitaōsumi (北大隅郡) Districts, Kagoshima (Merged into Kagoshima District) April 1, 1896 Uda (宇多郡) and Namekata (行方郡) Districts, Fukushima...