State · 502 – 587

Liang dynasty

A state of 502 – 587 — 85 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Southern Qi. It was replaced by Chen dynasty. The atlas records 6 things within it — people 6. Its line of rulers holds 11 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 85 years; 502 – 587
Rulers: 11; the Emperor of China
Most ground: 2.37 million km²; in 510
Within it: 6; recorded rows

Map: Liang dynasty in 510, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Liang dynasty in 510, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 2.37 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

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

Southern Qi · replaces · 479 – 502

After it

Chen dynasty · replaced by · 557 – 589

Rulers

The line of Emperor of China.

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roada second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

3 terms are shared from [object Object].

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Emperor Wu of Liang	502 – 549	47 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term
Emperor Jianwen of Liang	549 – 551	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term	child
Xiao Dong	551 – 551	under a year	deposed or removedWikidata's end cause on the term
Xiao Ji	552 – 553	1 year	killedWikidata's manner of death
Emperor Yuan of Liang	552 – 555	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term	sibling
Xiao Yuanming	555 – 555	under a year	deposed or removedWikidata's end cause on the term
Emperor Jing of Liang	555 – 557	2 years	ended by a named eventWikidata's end cause on the term
Xiao Cha · from the line of Western Liang (555–587)	555 – 562	7 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term
Xiao Zhuang	557 – 560	3 years	abdicatedWikidata's end cause on the term
Xiao Kui · from the line of Western Liang (555–587)	562 – 585	23 years	died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term
Xiao Cong · from the line of Western Liang (555–587)	585 – 587	2 years	deposed or removedWikidata's end cause on the term	child

11 rulers, 11 with terms dated as terms, covering 502 – 587. Median reign 2 years. 5 of 10 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. 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.

2.37 million km² in 512, 1.94 million km² in 552; at its largest 2.37 million km² in 512. 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 – 5994 rows

Emperor Yuan of Liang · ruler · 508 – 555
Emperor Jianwen of Liang · ruler · 503 – 551
Jizang · philosopher · 549 – 623
Emperor Jing of Liang · ruler · 544 – 558

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 stood85 years
stood longer than 44% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held2,365,300 km²
held more ground at its peak than 93% 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.
How long a reign lasted, at the median2 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 5% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record11
has more rulers on record than 83% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause 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.

linked

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, 492 – 597, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 510, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1069868 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.