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Name: Ma Chu

Type: Polity

Start: 907 AD

End: 951 AD

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Was one of the Ten Kingdoms during the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in China.

Establishment


  • June 907: Ma Yin was named regional governor by the Tang court in 896 after fighting against a rebel named Yang Xingmi. He declared himself as the Prince of Chu with the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907.
  • Chronology


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    1. Events


  • February 939: The rebel Annamese forces, led by Ngô Quyền defeated the invading forces of the Southern Han state of China and put an end to centuries of Chinese imperial domination in Vietnam. The Ngô Dynasty (939-965), founded by Ngô Quyền, was the first Vietnamese dynasty after the Third Chinese domination of Vietnam.

  • January 949: In 948, Southern Han invaded Ma Chu, taking 10 prefectures.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 952: After Ma Yin died the leadership was subject to struggle and conflict which resulted in the fall of the kingdom. The Southern Tang, fresh from its conquest of the Min Kingdom, took advantage and conquered the kingdom in 951.
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