East Asia · Fragmentation, Song and the conquest dynasties
Northern Han
951–979
Northern Han (951–979), one of the Ten Kingdoms, was the Shatuo remnant of the Later Han in Shanxi (capital Taiyuan), a Liao client. The last holdout against reunification, it was conquered by the Song in 979.
- Existed
- 951–979
- Shown on the map
- AD 960–979
- Peak area
- 27k km²
- Region
- East Asia
Overview
Northern Han (951–979), one of the Ten Kingdoms, was the Shatuo remnant of the Later Han in Shanxi (capital Taiyuan), a Liao client. The last holdout against reunification, it was conquered by the Song in 979.
Common questions
- What was Northern Han?
- Northern Han (951–979), one of the Ten Kingdoms, was the Shatuo remnant of the Later Han in Shanxi (capital Taiyuan), a Liao client. The last holdout against reunification, it was conquered by the Song in 979.
- When did Northern Han exist?
- Northern Han existed 951–979. On this map it is drawn AD 960–979.
- How large was Northern Han?
- At its greatest extent drawn on this map, Northern Han covered about 27,000 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 — Northern Han en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Han
This entry was last updated .
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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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