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Name: Min Kingdom

Type: Polity

Start: 907 AD

End: 945 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: Wang Shenzhi’s older brother Wang Chao was given the title of Surveillance Commissioner in 892. Wang Shenzhi himself was named military commissioner, and in 909, in the wake of the collapse of the Tang Dynasty two years earlier, named himself the Prince of Min.
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    1. Events


  • January 944: In 943, one of Wang Shenzhi’s sons rebelled and declared independence from the Min in the northwest of the territory of the kingdom, proclaiming the Yin dynasty.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 946: Seeing the threat posed by the Southern Tang, the Min court declared its allegiance to the Wuyue kingdom to its north. However, this did not stop the Southern Tang from marching in and incorporating the remainder of the Min Kingdom into its holdings in 945.
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