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Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdom ...

, which covers a period of roughly 289 years, from 618, when the dynasty was founded, to 907, when the last Tang emperor was deposed by the warlord

Zhu Wen Emperor Taizu of Later Liang (), personal name Zhu Quanzhong () (December 5, 852 – July 18, 912), né Zhu Wen (), name later changed to Zhu Huang (), nickname Zhu San (朱三, literally, "the third Zhu"), was a Chinese military general, mona ...

, who established the Later Liang dynasty, inaugurating the period of

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (), from 907 to 979, was an era of political upheaval and division in 10th-century Imperial China. Five dynastic states quickly succeeded one another in the Central Plain, and more than a dozen concu ...

. Information on areas and events relevant to the Tang dynasty such as the Wu interregnum, when

Wu Zetian Wu Zetian (17 February 624 – 16 December 705), personal name Wu Zhao, was the ''de facto'' ruler of the Tang dynasty from 665 to 705, ruling first through others and then (from 690) in her own right. From 665 to 690, she was first empres ...

established her own Zhou dynasty, and other realms such as the Sui dynasty,

Tibetan Empire The Tibetan Empire (, ; ) was an empire centered on the Tibetan Plateau, formed as a result of imperial expansion under the Yarlung dynasty heralded by its 33rd king, Songtsen Gampo, in the 7th century. The empire further expanded under the 3 ...

Three Kingdoms of Korea Samhan or the Three Kingdoms of Korea () refers to the three kingdoms of Goguryeo (고구려, 高句麗), Baekje (백제, 百濟), and Silla (신라, 新羅). Goguryeo was later known as Goryeo (고려, 高麗), from which the modern name ''Kor ...

Nanzhao Nanzhao (, also spelled Nanchao, ) was a dynastic kingdom that flourished in what is now southern China and northern Southeast Asia during the 8th and 9th centuries. It was centered on present-day Yunnan in China. History Origins Nanzh ...

, Japan and steppe nomads are also included where necessary.

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File:Establishment of the Tang Dynasty.svg,

Transition from Sui to Tang The transition from Sui to Tang (613–628) was the period of Chinese history between the end of the Sui dynasty and the start of the Tang dynasty. The Sui dynasty's territories were carved into a handful of short-lived states by its officials, ...

(613–628) File:Sui Dynasty Uprisings.png,

(613–628) File:Tang Tujue War.png, Tang campaign against the Eastern Turks (629–630) File:Tang-Tuyuhun War.png, Emperor Taizong's campaign against Tuyuhun in 634 File:Emperor Taizong's campaign against Xiyu states.svg,

Emperor Taizong's campaign against the Western Regions In the years following Tang Taizong's subjugation of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate, the emperor began to exert his military power toward the oasis city-states of the Tarim Basin (part of the area known in Chinese histories as the Western Regions). ...

(640–648) File:Tang-Korean wars.png,

Goguryeo–Tang War The Goguryeo–Tang War occurred from 645 to 668 and was fought between Goguryeo and the Tang dynasty. During the course of the war, the two sides allied with various other states. Goguryeo successfully repulsed the invading Tang armies dur ...

(645–668) File:Conquest of Western Turks.png,

Conquest of the Western Turks The conquest of the Western Turks, known as the Western Tujue in Chinese sources, was a military campaign in 655–657 led by the Tang dynasty generals Su Dingfang and Cheng Zhijie against the Western Turkic Khaganate ruled by Ashina Helu. The ...

in 657 File:Tang circuits 660.png, Tang dynasty in 660 File:Battle of Dafei River.png, Battle of Dafei River in 670 File:Khitan Rebellion.png, Rebellion of Li Jinzhong and Sun Wanrong in 696 File:Little Goguryeo.svg,

Little Goguryeo Little Goguryeo (; ko, 소고구려; alternatively Lesser Goguryeo, Little Gaogouli or Lesser Gaogouli) is the name of a state thought to have existed on the Liaodong Peninsula, proposed by the Japanese scholar Kaizaburo Hino ( :ja:日野開三 ...

(699–820) File:Nam Chiếu.png,

(738–937) File:Unified Silla and Balhae (8th Century) (4261052261).jpg,

Unified Silla Unified Silla, or Late Silla (, ), is the name often applied to the Korean kingdom of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, after 668 CE. In the 7th century, a Silla–Tang alliance conquered Baekje and the southern part of Goguryeo in the ...

and

Balhae Balhae ( ko, 발해, zh, c=渤海, p=Bóhǎi, russian: Бохай, translit=Bokhay, ), also rendered as Bohai, was a multi-ethnic kingdom whose land extends to what is today Northeast China, the Korean Peninsula and the Russian Far East. It ...

in the 8th century File:Ten Jiedushi of Tang.png, Major

jiedushi The ''jiedushi'' (), or jiedu, was a title for regional military governors in China which was established in the Tang dynasty and abolished in the Yuan dynasty. The post of ''jiedushi'' has been translated as "military commissioner", " legate" ...

in 745 File:Battle of Talas.png, Battle of Talas in 751 File:An Lushan Rebellion.png, An Lushan Rebellion (755–763) File:Tibetan Empire.png,

in 790 File:Balhae Kingdom.png,

in 800 File:Tang Fanzhen 820.png, Tang dynasty in 820 File:BalhaeHeight.png,

in 830 File:Qocho Uyghurs.png,

Qocho Qocho (), also known as Idiqut, ("holy wealth"; "glory"; "lord of fortune") was a Uyghur kingdom created in 843, with strong Chinese Buddhist and Tocharian influences. It was founded by Uyghur refugees fleeing the destruction of the Uyghur K ...

(843–1132) File:Guiyi Circuit.png,

Guiyi Circuit The Guiyi Circuit, also known as the Guiyi Army (, 848–1036 AD), was a Chinese regional military command and later an autonomous regime nominally subordinate to the Tang dynasty, the Five Dynasties, and the Northern Song dynasty. The Guiyi Ci ...

(851–1036) and the Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom (894–1036) File:Huang Chao Uprising.png, The uprisings of Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao (874–884)

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