Sixteen Kingdoms

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era of Chinese history historical period

The Sixteen Kingdoms was a turbulent period in Chinese history (4th–5th centuries) marked by political fragmentation and short-lived states ruled largely by non-Han peoples in northern China.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Sixteen Kingdoms period	1
Western Qin	1

Statements (64)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	era of Chinese history ⓘ historical period ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Shiliuguo NERFINISHED ⓘ Sixteen States NERFINISHED ⓘ
characterizedBy	frequent regime changes ⓘ non-Han rule in northern China ⓘ political fragmentation ⓘ short-lived states ⓘ widespread warfare ⓘ
contains	Cheng Han NERFINISHED ⓘ Former Liang NERFINISHED ⓘ Former Qin NERFINISHED ⓘ Former Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ Former Zhao NERFINISHED ⓘ Hu Xia NERFINISHED ⓘ Later Liang NERFINISHED ⓘ Later Qin NERFINISHED ⓘ Later Shu (Qiao Shu) NERFINISHED ⓘ Later Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ Later Zhao NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Liang NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Wei NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Liang NERFINISHED ⓘ Southern Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Liang NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Qin NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Yan NERFINISHED ⓘ Xia (Hu Xia) NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	China ⓘ
endedBy	unification of northern China by Northern Wei ⓘ
endTime	439 ⓘ
followedBy	Liu Song dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern and Southern dynasties NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern dynasties NERFINISHED ⓘ
follows	War of the Eight Princes NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Jin dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasEthnicGroupInPower	Di NERFINISHED ⓘ Han Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ Jie NERFINISHED ⓘ Qiang NERFINISHED ⓘ Xianbei NERFINISHED ⓘ Xiongnu NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasLanguage	Classical Chinese NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasReligion	Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ Chinese folk religion ⓘ Daoism ⓘ
hasSignificantConsequence	demographic shift toward southern China ⓘ formation of Northern Wei state ⓘ sinicization of non-Han ruling elites ⓘ
hasSignificantEvent	Battle of Fei River NERFINISHED ⓘ Former Qin invasion of Eastern Jin NERFINISHED ⓘ mass migrations of northern Chinese to the south ⓘ
locatedIn	northern China ⓘ
partOf	Age of Division NERFINISHED ⓘ
precededByEvent	collapse of Western Jin ⓘ
region	Gansu NERFINISHED ⓘ Guanzhong NERFINISHED ⓘ Hebei NERFINISHED ⓘ Shaanxi NERFINISHED ⓘ Yellow River basin NERFINISHED ⓘ
startTime	304 ⓘ
timePeriod	4th century ⓘ 5th century ⓘ

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Western Jin dynasty → followedBy → Sixteen Kingdoms ⓘ

Xianbei → influenced → Sixteen Kingdoms ⓘ

this entity surface form: Western Qin

Xianbei → partOf → Sixteen Kingdoms ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sixteen Kingdoms period