Empire907 CE – 1125 · 218 years

Khitan Liao Empire

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Liao dynasty, also known as the Khitan State, officially the Great Liao, was a Khitan-led imperial dynasty of China and empire ruled by the Yelü clan that existed between 916 and 1125. Founded around the time of the collapse of the Tang dynasty, at its greatest extent it ruled over Manchuria, the Mongolian Plateau, the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, southern portions of Siberia, and the northern tip of the North China Plain.

Wikipedia: Liao dynasty·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1100:Liao
SNAPSHOT1100
MATCHEDLiao
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire3

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Song-Liao Wars960 CE–1125
Significant · 500K dead
Battle of Kuju1018
Regional
Battle of Huanglong1115
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 907 CE and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Khitan Liao Empire (907 CE – 1125). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/asia-khitan-liao · Sources & methodology