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The Tang dynasty (/ t ɑː ŋ /, [6]; Chinese: 唐朝 [a]), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period .
The Tang dynasty and inspection circuits (道 dào) in 742, according to The Cambridge History of China Tang dynasty territory and its changes throughout history. The Tang dynasty of China administered territory using a hierarchical system of three descending divisions: circuits (dào 道), prefectures (zhōu 州), and counties (xiàn 縣).
The Yuanhe Maps and Records of Prefectures and Counties (simplified Chinese: 元和郡县图志; traditional Chinese: 元和郡縣圖志; pinyin: Yuánhé jùn xiàn tú zhì; Wade–Giles: Yüan-he chün hsien t'u chih) compiled by Li Jifu during the Yuanhe reign of the Tang dynasty is one of the earliest and most complete gazetteers of China.
During the Tang dynasty, Jia Dan improved the knowledge of China on foreign countries. He wrote a number of works on geography that described foreign states and trade routes, as well as producing a map Hainei Huayi Tu (海内華夷圖, "Map of Chinese and non-Chinese Territories in the World"). [8] [9] The map includes China and other known ...
Chang'an never recovered after the apex of the Tang dynasty, but there are some monuments from the Tang era still standing. After Zhu Quanzhong moved the capital to Luoyang, the Youguo Governorate ( 佑國軍 ) was established in Chang'an, with Han Jian being the jiedushi ( 佑國軍節度使 ).
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (Chinese: 五代十國) was an era of political upheaval and division in Imperial China from 907 to 979. Five dynastic states quickly succeeded one another in the Central Plain, and more than a dozen concurrent dynastic states, collectively known as the Ten Kingdoms, were established elsewhere, mainly in South China.
Sui dynasty, Tang dynasty and Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period; Song dynasty, Liao dynasty and Jin Empire; Yuan dynasty and Ming dynasty; Qing dynasty; On each map, ancient places and water features are shown in black and blue respectively, superimposed on modern features, borders and claims, shown in brown.
The map of China is surrounded by blocks of texts, which references back to the Tang dynasty map of Jia Dan (scholar and cartographer) called Hainei Huayi Tu (Map of China and the Barbarian Countries within the Seas) presented to Emperor Dezong of Tang in 801. [7] The later Huayi Tu map covers China during the Jin and Southern Song dynasty. The ...