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East Asia · Fragmentation, Song and the conquest dynasties

Yan Kingdom

911–913

The Yan (911–913) was a short-lived state proclaimed by the warlord Liu Shouguang in the You Prefecture region (around modern Beijing) during the early Five Dynasties. Notoriously cruel, Liu declared himself emperor of Yan in 911; his state was destroyed in 913 by the Shatuo Jin under Li Cunxu, and Liu was executed.

Existed
911–913
Shown on the map
AD 911–921
Peak area
63k km²
Region
East Asia

Overview

The Yan (911–913) was a short-lived state proclaimed by the warlord Liu Shouguang in the You Prefecture region (around modern Beijing) during the early Five Dynasties. Notoriously cruel, Liu declared himself emperor of Yan in 911; his state was destroyed in 913 by the Shatuo Jin under Li Cunxu, and Liu was executed.

Common questions

What was the Yan Kingdom?
The Yan (911–913) was a short-lived state proclaimed by the warlord Liu Shouguang in the You Prefecture region (around modern Beijing) during the early Five Dynasties. Notoriously cruel, Liu declared himself emperor of Yan in 911; his state was destroyed in 913 by the Shatuo Jin under Li Cunxu, and Liu was executed.
When did the Yan Kingdom exist?
The Yan Kingdom existed 911–913. On this map it is drawn AD 911–921.
How large was the Yan Kingdom?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Yan Kingdom covered about 63,000 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:

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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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