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East Asia · The Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern and Southern dynasties

Southern Qi

479–502

The Southern Qi (479–502) was the shortest of the Southern Dynasties, founded by Xiao Daocheng (Emperor Gao). Plagued by paranoid, violent rulers who massacred the imperial clan, it was overthrown in 502 by a kinsman, Xiao Yan, who founded the Liang.

Existed
479–502
Shown on the map
AD 480–509
Peak area
2.4M km²
Region
East Asia

Overview

The Southern Qi (479–502) was the shortest of the Southern Dynasties, founded by Xiao Daocheng (Emperor Gao). Plagued by paranoid, violent rulers who massacred the imperial clan, it was overthrown in 502 by a kinsman, Xiao Yan, who founded the Liang.

Common questions

What was Southern Qi?
The Southern Qi (479–502) was the shortest of the Southern Dynasties, founded by Xiao Daocheng (Emperor Gao). Plagued by paranoid, violent rulers who massacred the imperial clan, it was overthrown in 502 by a kinsman, Xiao Yan, who founded the Liang.
When did Southern Qi exist?
Southern Qi existed 479–502. On this map it is drawn AD 480–509.
How large was Southern Qi?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, Southern Qi covered about 2.4 million 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:

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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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