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  Sixteen Kingdoms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A less used term, the Period of Sixteen Kingdoms represents this turbulent era from 304 to 439.
Almost all rulers of the kingdoms were part of the Wu Hu ethnicity and claimed to be the emperors and wangs (kings).
The Northern Wei Dynasty is not counted as one of the Sixteen Kingdoms even though it was founded during the Period.
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 Three Kingdoms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The three titular kingdoms were the Kingdom of Wei (魏), the Kingdom of Han (漢), and the Kingdom of Wu (吳).
The term "Three Kingdoms" itself is somewhat of a mistranslation, since each state was eventually headed by an Emperor who claimed legitimate succession from the Han Dynasty, not by kings.
This situation was similar to the deposal of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty by Cao Pi, the founder of the Wei Dynasty.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Three_Kingdoms_Period   (4631 words)

  
 Han - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Han, one of the Chinese Sixteen Kingdoms, founded by the Liu family.
Han River (漢水 Hanshui, 漢江 Hanjiang), a tributary of the Yangtze with its mouth at Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Han (汗) or Kehan (可汗), the Chinese transliteration of Khan or Khaghan.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Han   (488 words)

  
 Liu Chan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As he ascended the throne at the young age of sixteen, Liu Chan was entrusted to the care of a group of veteran ministers, including the Chancellor Zhuge Liang and Imperial Secretary Li Yan.
Liu Yuan, the founder of one of the Wu Hu Sixteen Kingdoms, Han Zhao, who claimed to be a legitimate successor of the Han Dynasty, gave Liu Shan the posthumous name Emperor Xiaohuai (孝懷皇帝, literally "the filial and kind emperor").
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a 14th century historical novel by Luo Guanzhong, is a romanticization of the events that occurred before and during the Three Kingdoms era.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liu_Shan   (3506 words)

  
 Han Dynasty: A period of prosperity
Jin, the Sixteen Kingdoms, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties
Though these three kingdoms were reunited temporarily in 280 by the (Western) Jin Dynasty, the contemporary non-Han Chinese (Wu Hu,) ethnic groups controlled much of the country in the early 4th century and provoked large-scale Han Chinese migrations to south of the Chang Jiang.
Sixteen kingdoms were established by these ethnic groups.
www.archira.com /han.html   (935 words)

  
 Wu Hu - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
These non-Chinese tribes, whom the Han had fought to a standstill, seized the opportunity afforded by the weakness of the central government to extend their settlement of pastoral lands into the fertile North China Plain.
In 177 A.D., 30000 Han cavalry commanded by Xià Yù (夏育), Tiān Yàn (田晏) and Zāng Mín (臧旻), each of whom was the commander of units sent against the Wuhuan, the Qiang, and the Southern Xiongnu respectively before the campaign, attacked the confederacy.
The first of the Sixteen Kingdoms was founded by a group of Di refugees who fled into Sichuan.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Wu_Hu   (3060 words)

  
 The Definitive Guide to Han Dynasty XXXX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The reign of the Han Dynasty, which lasted for 400 years, is commonly considered within China to be one of the greatest periods in the entire history of China.
The western-eastern Han convention is currently used to avoid confusion with the Later Han Dynasty of the Period of the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms although the former-later nomenclature was used in history texts including Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian.
Han court officials who attempted to strip lands out of the landlords faced such enormous resistance that their policies would never be put in to place.
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 math lessons - Han
The Han Dynasty (202 BCE - 220 CE) of China
The Northern Han, a kingdom during during the Chinese Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
Gina Han, or Sunny Han, of the Han twins murder conspiracy
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 Britain.tv Wikipedia - Han
Han River (韓江 Hanjiang), a river in eastern Guangdong province, China that flows into the South China Sea.
Han (汗) or Kehan (可汗), the Chinese transliteration of Khan or Khagan.
Han (半), a Japanese word for "odd numbers"?title=or "half", as in hanyo.
www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Han   (503 words)

  
 Shanxi - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
During the invasions of northern nomads during the Sixteen Kingdoms period (304 - 439, what is now Shanxi was controlled one after the other by several regimes, including Later Zhao, Former Yan, Former Qin, and Later Yan.
They were followed by Northern Wei (386 - 534), a Xianbei kingdom, which had one of its earlier capitals at present-day Datong in northern Shanxi, and which went on to rule nearly all of northern China.
The population is mostly Han Chinese with minorities of Mongol, Manchu, and Hui.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Shanxi   (2049 words)

  
 Chinese History - Sixteen States 五胡十六國 (www.chinaknowledge.de)
With the sixteen year long crisis of the Jin court during the Rebellions of the Eight Princes, military leaders of Chinese settlers and Non-Chinese tribes saw their chance to become independent from the Jin Dynasty.
The Sixteen Kingdoms of the Five Barbarian Peoples (Di 氐, Jie 羯, Qiang 羌, Xianbei 鮮卑, Xiongnu 匈奴) are not enlisted among the acknowledged dynasties.
The period of the Sixteen Kingdoms (in fact, there were even a few more) can be divided into three stages: From 300 to 350, the Former Liang 前涼, the two Zhao 前後趙 and the Cheng-Han 成漢 empires rule the north and Sichuan.
www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Division/shiliuguo.html   (423 words)

  
 China to the Fall of the Han Dynasty
With the monarchical system of government, Han rule was on a long range course toward disaster, but the short term was served by Wendi being an able ruler, a ruler known for his regard for the interests of his subjects.
This was a kingdom equal in many ways to the Chinese states before the unification of China in 221 BCE, and a kingdom with many Chinese refugees from the previous century.
Militarily, Wei was the strongest of militarily of the three kingdoms, a strength bolstered by its economy and water transport.
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 Chinese imperialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sometimes neighboring states were actual protectorates or vassal states over which China exerted large amounts of influence, while in other cases foreign states merely acknowledged China's nominal suzerainty in order to gain access to Chinese trade, which took place through the tributary system.
The first dynasty to unify China was the Qin Dynasty, which consolidated its power with efficient administration and a strong central bureaucracy, and expanded outwards, annexing the other six kingdoms of the Warring States Period as well as other territory populated by non-Chinese speaking peoples, such as the Yue.
Several historical migrations, driven by war, natural disasters, foreign invasions, and/or population pressures, led to Han Chinese migration and settlement of new territories to the south, assimilating or displacing local peoples.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_imperialism   (598 words)

  
 chinhan.html
During the period of the Ch'in and Han Dynasties, China went from their old quasi-feudal multi-state system to a centralized bureaucratic government, which ultimately built an empire stretching from Vietnam to the steppes.
As was the case with the Eastern Chou dynasty, the Later Han emperors also moved the capital to Loyang, an easy-to-defend area strategically placed on a tributary of the Yellow river.
During the Han dynasty, the system of civil examinations for officials became firmly established, and schooling systems were established to prepare young men for the examinations, including the establishment of a national university after 124
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 Wikipedia: Han
Han Chinese, the dominant majority of ethnic group in mainland China.
Han (state), a state during the Warring States Period
One of the Samhan or three tribes in southern Korea before the Three Kingdoms Period.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/h/ha/han.html   (101 words)

  
 Three Kingdoms - insurance-life-term-vs-whole.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Three Kingdoms period (Simplified Chinese: 三国; Traditional Chinese: 三國; Pinyin Sānguó) is a period in the history of China.
The mounting pressure drove the Han Emperor and later Dong Zhuo himself west to Chang'an in May 191.
This was similar to the deposal of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty by Cao Pi, the founder of the Wei Dynasty.
insurance-life-term-vs-whole.info /Three_Kingdoms   (3094 words)

  
 From Unity to Division - by Sean Williams
When a period of great prosperity for a civilization ends, the people of that society often focus on what caused the end of their last age of prosperity, instead of what could be in store for the future.
The Han Dynasty, founded in 206 BC by Liu Bang (Lavarini), was a time of prosperity and advancement for the Chinese civilization.
In 221, the kingdom of Shu-Han would be founded by Liu Bei in the southwest; and in the southeast, Sun Quan would found the kingdom of Wu in 222 (Theobald, “The Three Kingdoms (220-280)”).
www.kongming.net /novel/writings/seanw/han-dyansty-utd.php   (1572 words)

  
 China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Emperor Guangwu of Han China reinstated the Han dynasty with the support of land-holding and merchant families at Luoyang, east of Xian; hence the new era is termed the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Han power declined again in the midst of land acquisitions, invasions and struggles of consort clans and eunuchs.
The Tang and Han are often referenced as the prosperous ages of China; the Tang, like the Han, established jurisdiction on trade routes.
www.xishuangbanna.org /chinesehistory   (3839 words)

  
 Heritage Week        (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The collapse of the Han dynasty was followed by nearly four centuries of ruling by warlords.
China's political fragmentation led to a succession of dynasties that lasted from 304 to 589 A.D. The contemporary non-Han Chinese ethnic groups ravaged the country in the early 4th century and provoked large-scale Han Chinese migrations to the south of the Chang Jiang.
More than sixteen states were established by these ethnic groups.
cssa.ucla.edu /archive/04-05/heritage_week/history/three_kingdoms.asp   (246 words)

  
 Han - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Han, a term for a feudal clan or fief in Japan (See: Abolition of the Han system)
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
You can find it there under the keyword Han (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hanandaction=history).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Han   (380 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Cheng Han   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Cheng Han (Simplified Chinese character: 成汉, Traditional Chinese character: 成漢, pinyin Chénghàn) (303 or 304-347) was a state of the Sixteen Kingdoms during the Jin Dynasty (265-420) in China.
Since they were both ruled by the Li family of the Di ethnicity, scholars with Chinese backgrounds often combined them into a single Cheng Han state.
The Chenghan was the earliest establishment of the kingdoms.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Cheng_Han   (245 words)

  
 Sixteen Kingdoms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Sixteen Kingdoms, or less commonly the Sixteen States, were a collection of numerous short-lived regimes in the China proper and neighboring areas from AD 304 to 439.
Almost all rulers of the kingdoms claimed to be the emperors and wangs (kings) within their kingdoms, except six Chinese rulers of Former Liang who nominally remained under the government of Jin Dynasty (265-420).
Han Zhao Empire 304-329 AD (addressed separately in traditional texts as Han Empire and Former Zhao Empire)
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/s/si/sixteen_kingdoms.html   (495 words)

  
 search.com - Three Kingdoms - Search.com Reference
The middle part of the period, from 220 and 263, was marked by a more militarily stable arrangement between three rival states, Kingdom of Wei (魏), Kingdom of Shu-Han (漢), and Kingdom of Wu (吳).
What is traditionally thought of as the beginning of the "unoffical" Three Kingdoms Period is the Yellow Turban Rebellion led by Zhang Jiao in 184.
A year later Dong Zhuo was killed in a coup d'etat and the Emperor passed through a number of warlords in the years that followed.
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 Wikinfo | Jin Dynasty (265-420)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Although providing a brief period of unity after conquering the Kingdom of Wu in AD 280, the Jin could not contain the invasion and uprising of nomadic peoples after the devastating War of the Eight Princes.
The capital was Luoyang until 311 when Emperor Huai was captured by the forces of Han Zhao.
Meanwhile North China was ruled by the Sixteen Kingdoms, many of which were founded by the Wu Hu, the non-Han Chinese ethnicities.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Jin_Dynasty_(265-420)   (465 words)

  
 The Ultimate Shanxi Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
During the barbarian invasions of the Sixteen Kingdoms period (304 - 439, Shanxi was hotly disputed along with the rest of North China, and present-day Datong served for a time as the capital of the Northern Wei (386 - 534), a Xianbei kingdom that went on to rule nearly all of North China.
During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period (907 - 960) Shanxi came under the Northern Han, the only one of the ten kingdoms in North China.
The population is mostly Han Chinese with minorities of Hui Chinese, Mongols, and Manchus.
www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Shanxi   (969 words)

  
 Northern Han
This article is about the Northern Han in the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
Please refer to Han Zhao for the Northern Han of the Sixteen Kingdoms.
The Northern Han kingdom is a state of the Ten Kingdoms in the Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/n/no/northern_han.html   (89 words)

  
 Han can refer to # Han Chinese Han...
# Han River Han River in Korea, but a different derivation than the "Han" in "Hanguk." # One of the Samhan Samhan or three tribes on the Korea peninsula before the Three Kingdoms Period Three Kingdoms Period.
# Han (state) Han (state), a state state during the Chinese Warring States Period Warring States Period # Han Han, one of the Chinese Sixteen Kingdoms Sixteen Kingdoms.
Refer to Han Zhao Han Zhao and Former Zhao Former Zhao.
www.biodatabase.de /han   (214 words)

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