State · 420 – 479
Liu Song dynasty
A state of 420 – 479 — 59 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Eastern Jin dynasty and followed Jin dynasty (266–420). It was replaced by Southern Qi. The atlas records 6 things within it — people 6. Its line of rulers holds 10 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
- 59 years
- 420 – 479
- Rulers
- 10
- the Emperor of China
- Most ground
- 2.74 million km²
- in 439
- Within it
- 6
- 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
- Eastern Jin dynasty · replaces
- Jin dynasty (266–420) · follows · 266 – 420
After it
- Southern Qi · replaced by · 479 – 502
Rulers
The line of Emperor of China.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emperor Wu of Song | 420 – 422 | 2 years | died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term | |
| Emperor Shao of Song | 422 – 424 | 2 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Emperor Wen of Song | 424 – 453 | 29 years | died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term | sibling |
| Liu Shao | 453 – 453 | under a year | executedWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Emperor Xiaowu of Song | 453 – 464 | 11 years | died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term | sibling |
| Liu Ziye | 464 – 466 | 2 years | killedWikidata's manner of death | child |
| Liu Zixun | 466 – 466 | under a year | executedWikidata's manner of death | sibling |
| Emperor Ming of Song | 466 – 472 | 6 years | died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term | |
| Latter Deposed Emperor of Liu Song | 472 – 477 | 5 years | died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term | child |
| Emperor Shun of Song | 477 – 479 | 2 years | ended by a named eventWikidata's end cause on the term | sibling |
10 rulers, 10 with terms dated as terms, covering 420 – 479. Median reign 2 years. 5 of 9 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 0.60, 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.
2.74 million km² in 430, 2.37 million km² in 479; at its largest 2.74 million km² in 440. 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.
400 – 4995 rows
- Emperor Wen of Song · ruler · 407 – 453
- Emperor Xiaowu of Song · ruler · 430 – 464
- Emperor Ming of Song · ruler · 439 – 472
- Emperor Shun of Song · ruler · 467 – 479
- Liu Shao · ruler · 426 – 453
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 stood59 years
stood longer than 37% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held2,741,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 94% 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 record10
has more rulers on record than 80% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 4 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, 410 – 489, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 439, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q49697 (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.