East Asia · The Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern and Southern dynasties
Eastern Wei
534–550
Eastern Wei (534–550) was the eastern successor of the divided Northern Wei, capital Ye, a puppet regime under the strongman Gao Huan, whose son Gao Yang deposed the last emperor (Yuan Shanjian) to found the Northern Qi in 550.
- Existed
- 534–550
- Shown on the map
- AD 534–554
- Peak area
- 620k km²
- Region
- East Asia
Overview
Eastern Wei (534–550) was the eastern successor of the divided Northern Wei, capital Ye, a puppet regime under the strongman Gao Huan, whose son Gao Yang deposed the last emperor (Yuan Shanjian) to found the Northern Qi in 550.
Common questions
- What was Eastern Wei?
- Eastern Wei (534–550) was the eastern successor of the divided Northern Wei, capital Ye, a puppet regime under the strongman Gao Huan, whose son Gao Yang deposed the last emperor (Yuan Shanjian) to found the Northern Qi in 550.
- When did Eastern Wei exist?
- Eastern Wei existed 534–550. On this map it is drawn AD 534–554.
- How large was Eastern Wei?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, Eastern Wei covered about 620,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.
Sources
This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia article for each polity as the basis of these profiles, supplemented by Encyclopaedia Britannica, chinaknowledge.de, the World History Encyclopedia, museum and university sources, and the academic works it lists. The article this entry is anchored on:
- Wikipedia — Eastern Wei en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Wei
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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).
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