Empire1038 – 1227 · 189 years

Tangut Western Xia

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 Western Xia or the Xi Xia (Chinese: 西夏; pinyin: Xī Xià; Wade–Giles: Hsi1 Hsia4), officially the Kingdom of the Great Xia of the White and Lofty (Tangut: 𗴂𗹭𘜶𗴲𗂧) or Great Xia (大夏; Dà Xià; Ta4 Hsia4), also known as the Tangut Empire, was a Tangut-led imperial dynasty of China that existed from 1038 to 1227 AD. At its peak, the dynasty ruled over 800,000 square kilometres (310,000 square miles) of modern-day north-central China.

Wikipedia: Western Xia·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:1000:Xixia
SNAPSHOT1100
MATCHEDXixia
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire2

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

Song-Tangut Wars1038–1227
Significant · 500K dead
Battle of Karamuran1225
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1038 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Tangut Western Xia (1038 – 1227). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/asia-tangut-western-xia · Sources & methodology