Yan (Ten Kingdoms)

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This article is about the Yan Kingdom of the early tenth century. For other uses, please see Yan (disambiguation)

Yan was a very short lived kingdom in the vicinity of present-day Beijing at the beginning of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, which is traditionally dated as being from 907 to 960. Yan only lasted for two years, from 911 to 913.

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Mote, F.W. (1999). Imperial China (900-1800). Harvard University Press, 16. ISBN 0-674-01212-7.