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East Asia · Fragmentation, Song and the conquest dynasties

Jingnan

924–963

Jingnan (924–963), the smallest of the Ten Kingdoms, was founded by Gao Jixing around Jiangling (Jingzhou) on the middle Yangtze. Surviving as a buffer by paying tribute to multiple neighbors (and occasionally seizing their envoys' gifts), it was annexed by the Song in 963.

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Existed
924–963
Shown on the map
AD 926–969
Peak area
72k km²
Region
East Asia

Overview

Jingnan (924–963), the smallest of the Ten Kingdoms, was founded by Gao Jixing around Jiangling (Jingzhou) on the middle Yangtze. Surviving as a buffer by paying tribute to multiple neighbors (and occasionally seizing their envoys' gifts), it was annexed by the Song in 963.

Common questions

What was Jingnan?
Jingnan (924–963), the smallest of the Ten Kingdoms, was founded by Gao Jixing around Jiangling (Jingzhou) on the middle Yangtze. Surviving as a buffer by paying tribute to multiple neighbors (and occasionally seizing their envoys' gifts), it was annexed by the Song in 963.
When did Jingnan exist?
Jingnan existed 924–963. On this map it is drawn AD 926–969.
How large was Jingnan?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, Jingnan covered about 72,000 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:

This entry was last updated .

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Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.

Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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