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Southern Dynasties 南朝:

I Liu-Song 劉宋 420-479
II Southern Qi 南齊 479-502
III Liang 梁 502-557
IV Chen 陳 557-589

(the Six Dynasties 六朝 are the four Southern Dynasties plus Wu 吳 (one of the Three Kingdoms 265-316) and Eastern Jin 東晉 (317-420)

period before (Sanguo)
-- Jin Dynasty
-- 16 Kingdoms
-- Northern Wei
next period (Sui)
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While the Eastern Jin Dynasty (Dongjin 東晉) was able to regain large territories between the River Huai 淮河 and the Yellow River 黃河, during the 170 years of the Southern Dynasties (Nanchao 南朝), more and more territory was lost to the Northern Dynasties (Beichao 北朝), first the area of the modern province of Shandong, then Henan, and the last of the Southern Dynasties, Chen 陳, was driven back to the Yangtse River 長江, and Northern Zhou 北周 conquered Yizhou 益州 (Sichuan) and Ningzhou 寧州 regions (Yunnan). The southern capital Jiankang 建康 (modern Nanjing 南京/Jiangsu) was thus directly exposed to the enemy in the north.
With the colonization of the south, more commanderies (jun 郡) were installed in the regions of Guangzhou 廣州 (Guangdong) and Ningzhou. The administration structure of the region south of the River Huai was very complicated because fugitives the north named their new homelands after their old hometowns like the European immigrants mirrored the names of their hometown in the Americas (New Orleans, New York, Frankfort/Kentucky). In a political sense, these virtual commanderies served as contemporary administration units in the hope to return the to the north once later. Therefore we can find region designations in the area of modern Jiangsu province that are normally located in Shandong, Henan or even Beijing, like Qingzhou 青州, Yanzhou 兖州 and Youzhou 幽州. Likewise, vitual commanderies were installed like Qi 齊 or Nan-Qiao 南譙, or even Jingzhao 京兆, the capital commandery around the old capital Chang'an 長安 (modern Xi'an/Shaanxi) that was shifted to the location of modern Xiangfan 襄樊/Hubei. Because there were too many small temporary or semi-temporary commanderies, the map above is not complete concerning the regions of Liangzhou-Qinzhou 梁州秦州, Yongzhou 雍州, Sizhou 司州, Yuzhou 豫州, Nan-Xuzhou 南徐州 and the three regions in the east (Yuzhou 徐州, Nan-Xuzhou 南徐州, Nan-Yanzhou 南兖州).

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