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East Asia · Fragmentation, Song and the conquest dynasties

Southern Chu

927–951

Southern Chu (927–951; effectively from 907), one of the Ten Kingdoms, was founded by Ma Yin in Hunan, capital Changsha. It prospered on the tea trade and used lead/iron coinage to retain wealth.

Existed
927–951
Shown on the map
AD 911–959
Peak area
418k km²
Region
East Asia

Overview

Southern Chu (927–951; effectively from 907), one of the Ten Kingdoms, was founded by Ma Yin in Hunan, capital Changsha. It prospered on the tea trade and used lead/iron coinage to retain wealth. Weakened by succession disputes, it was annexed by the Southern Tang in 951.

Common questions

What was Southern Chu?
Southern Chu (927–951; effectively from 907), one of the Ten Kingdoms, was founded by Ma Yin in Hunan, capital Changsha. It prospered on the tea trade and used lead/iron coinage to retain wealth.
When did Southern Chu exist?
Southern Chu existed 927–951. On this map it is drawn AD 911–959.
How large was Southern Chu?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, Southern Chu covered about 418,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.

Sources

This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia article for each polity as the basis of these profiles, supplemented by Encyclopaedia Britannica, chinaknowledge.de, the World History Encyclopedia, museum and university sources, and the academic works it lists. The article this entry is anchored on:

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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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