Yan (Three Kingdoms)
Yan (Chinese: 燕) was a Chinese kingdom that existed from July 237 to September 238 CE in the Liaodong Peninsula during the Three Kingdoms period. Its predecessor was an independent regime ruled by Gongsun Du and his son Gongsun Kang from 190 to 237. Though it only claimed independence in 237, historians such as Wang Zhongshu and Hou Tao consider it to be a de facto independent regime from when Gongsun Du established his rule in Liaodong in 190. Although it existed during the Three Kingdoms period, it is not counted as one of the eponymous three kingdoms: Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu. Nevertheless, writers such as Kang Youwei consider it to be a "fourth country".
Yan 燕 | |||||||||
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| 237–238 | |||||||||
Time-lapse of the multiple various conquests and territorial changes of the Three Kingdoms era, the State of Yan only briefly existed though the region had been ruled by the Gongsun Clan for decades before its conquest in 238 | |||||||||
| Status | Kingdom | ||||||||
| Capital | Xiangping | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| King | |||||||||
• 237–238 | Gongsun Yuan | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | July 237 | ||||||||
• Officially claimed dependency to Eastern Wu | January 238 | ||||||||
• Attacked by Sima Yi | June 238 | ||||||||
• Conquered | 29 September 238 | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 237 CE | about 300,000 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | China | ||||||||
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