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Era of Disunity 9. Later Liang Dynasty Map
907 to 923 AD - 16 Years
The Later Liang was one of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten
Kingdoms Period in China. It was founded by Zhu Wen, posthumously known as
Taizu of Later Liang, after he forced the last emperor of the Tang dynasty to
abdicate in his favour (and then murdered him). The Later Liang dynasty would
last until 923 when it was destroyed by the Later Tang Dynasty.
Zhu Wen initially allied himself as Huang Chao's lieutenant. However, he took
Huang's best troops and established his own power base as a warlord in Kaifeng.
By 904, he had exerted control over both of the twin Tang Dynasty capitals of
Chang'an and Luoyang. Tang emperor Zhaozong was ordered murdered by Zhu in 904
and the last Tang emperor, Ai Di (Emperor Ai of Tang), was deposed three years
later. Emperor Ai of Tang was murdered in 908, also ordered by Zhu.
Meanwhile, Zhu Wen declared himself emperor of the new Later Liang in Kaifeng
in 907. The name Liang refers to the Henan region in which the heart of the
regime rested.
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