State · 550 – 577
Northern Qi
A state of 550 – 577 — 27 years in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Eastern Wei. It was replaced by Northern Zhou. The atlas records 7 things within it — people 7. Its line of rulers holds 8 people. Its own article says it was conquered by Northern Zhou.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 27 years
- 550 – 577
- Rulers
- 8
- the Emperor of China
- Most ground
- 840,800 km²
- in 561
- Within it
- 7
- 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 Wei · replaces · 534 – 550
After it
- Northern Zhou · replaced by · 557 – 581
How it ended, as its article says
Conquered by Northern Zhou, 577. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
The dynasty was founded by Gao Yang (Emperor Wenxuan), and was eventually conquered by the Xianbei-led Northern Zhou dynasty in 577 AD.
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 Wenxuan of Northern Qi | 550 – 559 | 9 years | died in office, manner not recordedWikidata's end cause on the term | |
| Emperor Fei of Northern Qi | 559 – 560 | 1 year | deposed or removedWikidata's end cause on the term | child |
| Emperor Xiaozhao of Northern Qi | 560 – 561 | 1 year | died by accidentWikidata's manner of death | |
| Emperor Wucheng of Northern Qi | 561 – 565 | 4 years | ended by a named eventWikidata's end cause on the term | sibling |
| Gao Wei | 565 – 577 | 12 years | ended by a named eventWikidata's end cause on the term | child |
| Gao Heng | 577 – 577 | under a year | abdicatedWikidata's end cause on the term | child |
| Gao Yanzong | 577 – 577 | under a year | executedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Gao Shaoyi | 578 – 580 | 2 years | exiled, imprisoned or confined, the article saysread from the ruler's own article |
8 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 550 – 580. Only 30 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 2 of 7 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 0.68, 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.
617,600 km² in 555, 840,800 km² in 575; at its largest 840,800 km² in 565. 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 – 5997 rows
- Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi · ruler · 526 – 559
- Emperor Wucheng of Northern Qi · ruler · 537 – 569
- Gao Wei · ruler · 556 – 577
- Emperor Xiaozhao of Northern Qi · ruler · 535 – 561
- Emperor Fei of Northern Qi · ruler · 545 – 561
- Kong Yingda · philosopher · 574 – 648
- Gao Shaoyi · ruler · 501
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 stood27 years
stood longer than 25% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held840,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 82% 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 record8
has more rulers on record than 76% 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.
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, 540 – 587, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 561, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q1143524 (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.