State · 557 – 589
Chen dynasty
A state of 557 – 589 — 32 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Liang dynasty. It was replaced by Sui dynasty. The atlas records 5 things within it — people 5. Its line of rulers holds 5 people. Its own article says it was conquered by Sui dynasty.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 32 years
- 557 – 589
- Rulers
- 5
- the Emperor of China
- Most ground
- 1.01 million km²
- in 587
- Within it
- 5
- recorded rows
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Liang dynasty · replaces · 502 – 587
After it
- Sui dynasty · replaced by · 581 – 618
How it ended, as its article says
Conquered by Sui dynasty, 589. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
It was conquered by the Sui dynasty in 589 AD, marking an end to the Northern and Southern dynasties period in Chinese history.
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
The line of Emperor of China.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emperor Wu of Chen | 557 – 559 | 2 years | died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term | |
| Emperor Wen of Chen | 559 – 566 | 7 years | died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term | nephew or niece |
| Emperor Fei of Chen | 567 – 568 | 1 year | deposed or removedWikidata's end cause on the term | child |
| Emperor Xuan of Chen | 568 – 582 | 14 years | died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term | |
| Chen Shubao | 582 – 589 | 7 years | abdicatedWikidata's end cause on the term | child |
5 rulers, 5 with terms dated as terms, covering 557 – 589. Only 32 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 1 of 4 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.67, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
1.01 million km² in 562, 1.01 million km² in 589; at its largest 1.01 million km² in 587. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
500 – 5995 rows
- Emperor Wu of Chen · ruler · 503 – 559
- Emperor Wen of Chen · ruler · 522 – 566
- Emperor Xuan of Chen · ruler · 530 – 582
- Chen Shubao · ruler · 553 – 604
- Emperor Fei of Chen · ruler · 554 – 570
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood32 years
stood longer than 27% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held1,014,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 85% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record5
has more rulers on record than 64% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 547 – 599, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 587, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q62454 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.