Northern Song Dynasty

Overview

The Song dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song, who usurped the throne of the Later Zhou dynasty and went on to conquer the rest of the Ten Kingdoms, ending the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. The Song often came into conflict with the contemporaneous Liao, Western Xia, and Jin dynasties in northern China. After retreating to southern China following attacks by the Jin dynasty, the Song was eventually conquered by the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.

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Borders & accuracy

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

• SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
• DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1000:Song Empire
• SNAPSHOT1000
• MATCHEDSong Empire
• POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire9

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

• Song-Jin Wars1125–1234
  Major conflict · 2.0M dead
• Jingkang incident1125–27
  Major conflict
• Song-Liao Wars960 CE–1125
  Significant · 500K dead
• Song-Tangut Wars1038–1227
  Significant · 500K dead
• Dali Kingdom Conflicts937 CE–1253
  Regional · 300K dead
• Battle of Lingzhou1081
  Regional
• Battle of Songhua1114
  Regional
• Jin–Liao War1114–25
  Regional
• Northern Song Invasion Attempt1019
  Minor · 5.0K dead