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Founding of Nanping (Jingnan)

Type Event Region China Time c. 924

Around 924 Gao Jixing received investiture from the Later Liang in the Jingzhou area and founded Jingnan (known in history as Nanping), a small buffe…

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  1. c. 907–924Jingzhou · HubeiGao Jixing garrisoned Jingnan under the Later Liang regime, gradually gaining control of the Jiang-Han region and laying the military-political foundation for founding a state.
  2. c. 924Jingzhou · HubeiGao Jixing was enfeoffed as Prince of Nanping, and the Jingnan state formally became one of the Ten Kingdoms, with Jingzhou as its capital, maintaining an independent separatist position among the great powers.

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