• Establishment of Eastern Wei, start of division of Northern Wei
8 November 534[2]
• Emperor Wen's ascension, often viewed as establishment
18 February 535[1] 535
• Disestablished
14 February 557[3] 557
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Wei (/weɪ/), known in historiography as the Western Wei (Chinese: 西魏; pinyin: Xī Wèi), was an imperial dynasty of China that followed the disintegration of the Northern Wei. One of the Northern dynasties during the era of the Northern and Southern dynasties, it ruled the western part of northern China from 535 to 557. As with the Northern Wei dynasty that preceded it, the ruling family of the Western Wei were members of the Tuoba clan of the Xianbei.
Wei (/weɪ/), known in historiography as the WesternWei (Chinese: 西魏; pinyin: Xī Wèi), was an imperial dynasty of China that followed the disintegration...
three time periods: Northern Wei; Eastern and WesternWeis; Northern Qi and Northern Zhou. The Northern, Eastern, and WesternWei along with the Northern Zhou...
split into: WesternWei (西魏, 535–557) Eastern Wei (東魏, 534–550) Zhai Wei (翟魏, 388–392), state of Dingling/Gaoche ethnicity in China Wei River, a main...
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Wei Bao (died 204 BC) was the ruler of the Kingdom of WesternWei (西魏國) of the Eighteen Kingdoms during the Chu–Han Contention, an interregnum between...
nobles of WesternWei create intrigues and falsely accuse the Northern Yan family of stealing the military map and revealing it to the Emperor of Wei when...
defeated. As the relationship between Emperor Yuan and WesternWei was deteriorating, in 555, WesternWei army sacked Jiangling, forcing Emperor Yuan to surrender...
historiography as Emperor Fei of WesternWei ((西)魏廢帝; lit. "deposed") (died May or June 554), was an emperor of China's Xianbei-led WesternWei dynasty. He, even more...
Emperor Wen of WesternWei ((西)魏文帝) (507 – 28 March 551), personal name Yuan Baoju (元寶炬), was the first emperor of the WesternWei dynasty of China. In...
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entity. The last khagan fled to the court of the WesternWei, but at the demand of the Göktürks, WesternWei executed him and the nobles who accompanied him...
Tai, who was paramount general of WesternWei, following the split of Northern Wei into WesternWei and Eastern Wei in 535. After Yuwen Tai's death in...
Wei (/weɪ/), known in historiography as the Eastern Wei (simplified Chinese: 东魏; traditional Chinese: 東魏; pinyin: Dōng Wèi), was an imperial dynasty of...
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inconclusive, allowing WesternWei to stand. Periodically, WesternWei generals who had prior relationships with Gao would defect to Eastern Wei, and Gao at times...
Tuoba to Yuan (元). The empire split into Eastern Wei and WesternWei in 535, with the WesternWei's rulers briefly resuming use of the Tuoba name in 554...
of WesternWei ((西)魏恭帝) (537 – April 557), personal name né Yuan Kuo (元廓), later changed to Tuoba Kuo (拓拔廓), was the last emperor of the WesternWei dynasty...
of the state WesternWei, a branch successor state of Northern Wei Dugu Xin (独孤信, 503–557), a paramount general of the state WesternWei Yuchi Jiong (尉遲迥...
554, after offending Yuwen Tai, the paramount general of rival WesternWei, WesternWei forces descended on and captured his capital Jiangling (江陵, in...
Emperor Wu (Chen Baxian), but as he was detained as a hostage by WesternWei and WesternWei's successor state Northern Zhou, was unable to succeed to the...
tribe started to rise and frequently invaded the western frontier of Wei. The chancellor of WesternWei, Yuwen Tai, sent An Nuopanto (安諾盤陀, Nanai-Banda...
the start of the dynasty, Chen's northern neighbors the Eastern and WesternWei were later replaced by the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi, with the north...
struggle resulted in a split which introduced the Eastern Wei and the WesternWei. The Eastern Wei dynasty was short-lived. Established in 534, several military...
Eastern Wei and the part under Yuwen's and Emperor Wen's control known as WesternWei. For the rest of his life, Yuwen endeavored to make WesternWei, then...
in AD 196. The Cao Wei (AD 220–265) during the Three Kingdoms period. The Western Jin dynasty, from AD 265 to 311. The Northern Wei dynasty from AD 493...
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