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83 relations: Abaoji, Battle of Gaoliang River, Beijing, Bohai Sea, Border, Castration, Cavalry, Chanyuan Treaty, China, Datong, Denis Twitchett, Emperor of China, Emperor Shengzong of Liao, Emperor Taizong of Liao, Emperor Taizong of Song, Eunuch, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Frederick W. Mote, Great Wall of China, Han (Chinese surname), Han Chinese, Harvard University Press, Hebei, Hejian, History of Beijing, History of Liao, Huailai County, Imperial China: 900–1800, Jiedushi, Jin dynasty (1115–1234), Jin–Song Wars, Jizhou District, Tianjin, Jurchen people, Kaifeng, Khagan, Khitan people, Later Jin (Five Dynasties), Later Liang (Five Dynasties), Later Tang, Later Zhou, Li Keyong, Liao dynasty, Luan County, Lulong County, Manchu people, Miyun District, Mongols, Nanjing (Liao dynasty), Northern and Southern dynasties, Northern Han, ..., Prefectures of the People's Republic of China, Qian'an, Hebei, Qin dynasty, Renqiu, Shanxi, Shatuo, Shi Chonggui, Shi Jingtang, Shunyi District, Shuozhou, Song dynasty, Tang dynasty, Tianjin, Toqto'a (Yuan dynasty), Turkic peoples, Wang Ji'en, Wuzhou (in modern Hebei), Xiao Yanyan, Xicheng District, Xuanhua District, Yanqing District, Yi County, Hebei, Ying County, Ying Prefecture (Hebei), Ying Prefecture (Shanxi), You Prefecture, Yu County, Hebei, Yu Prefecture (Hebei), Yun Prefecture (Shanxi), Zhu Wen, Zhuolu County, Zhuozhou, Zunhua. Expand index (33 more) »
Abaoji
Abaoji (Khitan: Ambagyan), posthumously known as Emperor Taizu of Liao, was a Khitan leader and founder of the Liao dynasty (907–926).
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Battle of Gaoliang River
The Battle of Gaoliang River was fought in 979 between the Liao Dynasty and Song Dynasty in what is today the city of Beijing.
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Beijing
Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.
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Bohai Sea
The Bohai Sea or Bo Sea, also known as Bohai Gulf, Bo Gulf or Pohai Bay, is the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea and Korea Bay on the coast of Northeastern and North China.
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Border
Borders are geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities.
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Castration
Castration (also known as gonadectomy) is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which an individual loses use of the testicles.
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Cavalry
Cavalry (from the French cavalerie, cf. cheval 'horse') or horsemen were soldiers or warriors who fought mounted on horseback.
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Chanyuan Treaty
The Chanyuan Treaty in 1004-1005 was the pivotal point in the relations between the Northern Song (960-1127) and the Liao Dynasties (916-1125).
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.
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Datong
Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China.
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Denis Twitchett
Denis Crispin Twitchett (23 September 192524 February 2006) was a British Sinologist and scholar who specialized in Chinese history, and is well known as one of the co-editors of The Cambridge History of China.
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Emperor of China
The Emperor or Huangdi was the secular imperial title of the Chinese sovereign reigning between the founding of the Qin dynasty that unified China in 221 BC, until the abdication of Puyi in 1912 following the Xinhai Revolution and the establishment of the Republic of China, although it was later restored twice in two failed revolutions in 1916 and 1917.
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Emperor Shengzong of Liao
Emperor Shengzong of Liao (16 January 972 – 25 June 1031), personal name Wenshunu, sinicised name Yelü Longxu, was the sixth emperor of the Khitan-led Liao dynasty.
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Emperor Taizong of Liao
Emperor Taizong of Liao (25 November 902 – 18 May 947), personal name Yaogu, sinicised name Yelü Deguang, courtesy name Dejin, was the second emperor of the Khitan-led Liao dynasty.
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Emperor Taizong of Song
Emperor Taizong of Song (20 November 939 – 8 May 997), personal name Zhao Jiong, was the second emperor of the Song dynasty in China.
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Eunuch
The term eunuch (εὐνοῦχος) generally refers to a man who has been castrated, typically early enough in his life for this change to have major hormonal consequences.
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Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period was an era of political upheaval in 10th-century Imperial China.
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Frederick W. Mote
Frederick Wade "Fritz" Mote (June 2, 1922 – February 10, 2005), was an American Sinologist and a professor of History at Princeton University for nearly 50 years.
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Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China to protect the Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the various nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe with an eye to expansion.
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Han (Chinese surname)
Han (한) is a common Chinese surname.
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Han Chinese
The Han Chinese,.
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Hebei
Hebei (postal: Hopeh) is a province of China in the North China region.
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Hejian
Hejian (alternative romanizations: Ho Dsien, Ho-kien) is a county-level city of Cangzhou City, in east-central Hebei province, China.
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History of Beijing
The city of Beijing has a long and rich history that dates back over 3,000 years.
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History of Liao
The History of Liao, or Liao Shi (Liáo Shǐ), is a Chinese historical book compiled officially by the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), under the direction of the historian Toqto'a (Tuotuo), and finalized in 1344.
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Huailai County
Huailai is a county in northwestern Hebei province, People's Republic of China, under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Zhangjiakou.
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Imperial China: 900–1800
Imperial China: 900–1800 is a book of history written by F. W. Mote, Professor of Chinese History and Civilization, Emeritus, at Princeton University.
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Jiedushi
The jiedushi were regional military governors in China during the Tang dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
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Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
The Jin dynasty, officially known as the Great Jin, lasted from 1115 to 1234 as one of the last dynasties in Chinese history to predate the Mongol invasion of China.
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Jin–Song Wars
Map showing the Song-Jurchen Jin wars The Jin–Song Wars were a series of conflicts between the Jurchen Jin dynasty (1115–1234) and Han Chinese Song dynasty (960–1279).
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Jizhou District, Tianjin
Jizhou District is a district in the far north of the municipality of Tianjin, People's Republic of China, holding cultural and historical significance (e.g., the Buddhist Temple of Solitary Joy) formerly a county known as Jixian.
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Jurchen people
The Jurchen (Manchu: Jušen; 女真, Nǚzhēn), also known by many variant names, were a Tungusic people who inhabited the region of Manchuria until around 1630, at which point they were reformed and combined with their neighbors as the Manchu.
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Kaifeng
Kaifeng, known previously by several names, is a prefecture-level city in east-central Henan province, China.
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Khagan
Khagan or Qaghan (Old Turkic: kaɣan; хаан, khaan) is a title of imperial rank in the Turkic and Mongolian languages equal to the status of emperor and someone who rules a khaganate (empire).
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Khitan people
The Khitan people were a nomadic people from Northeast Asia who, from the 4th century, inhabited an area corresponding to parts of modern Mongolia, Northeast China and the Russian Far East.
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Later Jin (Five Dynasties)
The Later Jìn (936–947), also called Shi Jin (石晉), was one of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in China.
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Later Liang (Five Dynasties)
The Later Liang (1 June 907 – 19 November 923), also known as Zhu Liang, was one of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in China.
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Later Tang
Tang, known in history as Later Tang, was a short-lived imperial dynasty that lasted from 923 to 937 during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in the history of China.
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Later Zhou
The Later Zhou was the last in a succession of five dynasties that controlled most of northern China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, which lasted from 907 to 960 and bridged the gap between the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.
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Li Keyong
Li Keyong (October 24, 856 – February 23, 908) was a Shatuo military governor (Jiedushi) during the late Tang Dynasty and was key to developing a base of power for the Shatuo in what is today Shanxi Province in China.
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Liao dynasty
The Liao dynasty (Khitan: Mos Jælud), also known as the Liao Empire, officially the Great Liao, or the Khitan (Qidan) State (Khitan: Mos diau-d kitai huldʒi gur), was an empire in East Asia that ruled from 907 to 1125 over present-day Mongolia and portions of the Russian Far East, northern China, and northeastern Korea.
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Luan County
Luan County is a county in the east of Hebei province, China.
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Lulong County
Lulong County, formerly Yongping, is a county of Qinhuangdao City, in northeastern Hebei Province, China.
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Manchu people
The Manchu are an ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name.
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Miyun District
Miyun District is situated in northeast Beijing.
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Mongols
The Mongols (ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯᠴᠤᠳ, Mongolchuud) are an East-Central Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia and China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
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Nanjing (Liao dynasty)
Nanjing was the name for modern Beijing during the Liao dynasty, when Khitan rulers made the city the southern capital.
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Northern and Southern dynasties
The Northern and Southern dynasties was a period in the history of China that lasted from 420 to 589, following the tumultuous era of the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Wu Hu states.
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Northern Han
The Northern Han kingdom was a state of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
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Prefectures of the People's Republic of China
Prefectures, formally a kind of prefecture-level divisions as a term in the context of China, are used to refer to several unrelated political divisions in both ancient and modern China.
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Qian'an, Hebei
Qian'an is a city in the northeastern part of Hebei province in North China.
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Qin dynasty
The Qin dynasty was the first dynasty of Imperial China, lasting from 221 to 206 BC.
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Renqiu
Renqiu is a county-level city in Hebei, China.
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Shanxi
Shanxi (postal: Shansi) is a province of China, located in the North China region.
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Shatuo
The Shatuo (or, also: Shato, Sha-t'o, Sanskrit Sart Zuev Yu.A., "Horse Tamgas from Vassal Princedoms (Translation of Chinese composition "Tanghuyao" of 8-10th centuries)", Kazakh SSR Academy of Sciences, Alma-Ata, I960, p. 127 (In Russian)) were a Turkic tribe that heavily influenced northern Chinese politics from the late ninth century through the tenth century.
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Shi Chonggui
Shi Chonggui (Chinese: 石重貴) (914–974), known in traditional Chinese historical sources as Emperor Chu of Later Jin (後晉出帝, "the exiled emperor") or Emperor Shao of Later Jin (後晉少帝, "the young emperor"), posthumously known in Liao as the Prince of Jin (晉王), was the second and last emperor of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Later Jin.
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Shi Jingtang
Shi Jingtang (石敬瑭) (30 March 892 – 28 July 942Zizhi Tongjian, vol. 283.), also known by his temple name Gaozu (高祖), was the founding emperor of imperial China's short-lived Later Jin during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, reigning from 936 until his death.
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Shunyi District
Shunyi District is an administrative district of Beijing, located outside of the city proper.
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Shuozhou
Shuozhou is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China.
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Song dynasty
The Song dynasty (960–1279) was an era of Chinese history that began in 960 and continued until 1279.
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Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty or the Tang Empire was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
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Tianjin
Tianjin, formerly romanized as Tientsin, is a coastal metropolis in northern China and one of the four national central cities of the People's Republic of China (PRC), with a total population of 15,469,500, and is also the world's 11th-most populous city proper.
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Toqto'a (Yuan dynasty)
Toqto’a (ᠲᠣᠭᠲᠠᠭᠠ Toqtogha; Cyrillic: Тогтох;; 1314－1356), also called "The Great Historian Tuotuo", was a Yuan official historian and the high-ranking minister of the Yuan dynasty of China.
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Turkic peoples
The Turkic peoples are a collection of ethno-linguistic groups of Central, Eastern, Northern and Western Asia as well as parts of Europe and North Africa.
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Wang Ji'en
Wang Ji'en (died 999), previously Zhang Dejun, was an eunuch and a military general during imperial China's Later Zhou and the following Song dynasty.
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Wuzhou (in modern Hebei)
Wuzhou or Wu Prefecture (武州) was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China, centering on modern Xuanhua County, Hebei, China.
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Xiao Yanyan
Xiao Yanyan (953–1009) was a Khitan empress of imperial China's Liao dynasty.
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Xicheng District
Xicheng District (lit. "West City District") is a district of Beijing.
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Xuanhua District
Xuanhua is an urban district of Zhangjiakou in northwestern Hebei Province, China.
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Yanqing District
Yanqing District is a subdivision of the municipality of Beijing located northwest of the city proper of Beijing.
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Yi County, Hebei
Yi County or Yixian is a county in Hebei province of China, administratively under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Baoding.
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Ying County
Ying County or Yingxian is a county of Shanxi, China.
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Ying Prefecture (Hebei)
Yingzhou or Ying Prefecture was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China in modern Hebei, China, seated in modern Hejian.
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Ying Prefecture (Shanxi)
Yingzhou or Ying Prefecture (應州) was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China in modern Shanxi, China, seated in modern Ying County.
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You Prefecture
You Prefecture or Province, also known by its Chinese name Youzhou, was a prefecture (zhou) in northern China during its imperial era.
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Yu County, Hebei
Yu County, also known by its Chinese name Yuxian, is a county under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Zhangjiakou in northwestern Hebei province, China.
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Yu Prefecture (Hebei)
Yu Prefecture, also known by its Chinese name Yuzhou (蔚州) and as Weizhou or Wei Prefecture, was a prefecture (zhou) of imperial China, centered on present-day Yu County, Hebei.
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Yun Prefecture (Shanxi)
Yunzhou or Yun Prefecture (雲州) was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China seated in modern Datong, Shanxi, China.
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Zhu Wen
Emperor Taizu of Later Liang (後梁太祖), personal name Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠) (852–912), né Zhu Wen (朱溫), name later changed to Zhu Huang (朱晃), nickname Zhu San (朱三, literally, "the third Zhu"), was a Jiedushi (military governor) at the end of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, who previously served as a general under the rival Emperor Huang Chao's Empire of Qi and overthrew Empire of Tang in 907, established the Later Liang as its emperor, and ushered in the era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
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Zhuolu County
Zhuolu County is a county in the northwest of Hebei province, bordering Beijing's Mentougou District to the east.
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Zhuozhou
Zhuozhou, is a county-level city with 628,000 inhabitants in Hebei province, bordering Beijing to the north.
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Zunhua
Zunhua is a county-level city under the administration of Tangshan, Hebei, China.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen_Prefectures
