Jin Dynasty
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Jin Dynasty may refer to a number of ruling families in China, or the periods of their rule:
- Jin Dynasty (265-420) (Simplified Chinese: 晋朝; Traditional Chinese: 晉朝; pinyin: Jìn cháo) of China
- Later Jin Dynasty (Five Dynasties) (936-947) (Simplified Chinese: 后晋; Traditional Chinese: 後晉; pinyin: Hòu Jìn) was one of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China.
- Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), also spelled Jinn Dynasty (Simplified Chinese: 金朝; Traditional Chinese: 金朝; pinyin: Jīn cháo), a Jurchen kingdom in northern China
- Later Jin Dynasty, also spelled Later Jinn Dynasty (Simplified Chinese: 后金; Traditional Chinese: 後金; pinyin: Hòu Jīn), a state founded in Manchuria in 1616 by the Jurchen Nurhaci, later renamed Qing Dynasty