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Northern Wei

386 – 535
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A Xianbei (Tuoba) dynasty that reunified North China out of the Sixteen Kingdoms chaos, the first and longest-lived of the Northern Dynasties, before splitting into Eastern and Western Wei in 535.

Fractured in 534-535 into Eastern and Western Wei amid the Six Frontier Towns revolt, leading toward the Northern Qi and Northern Zhou.

Borders in 495 · drawn from 2 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Northern Wei — the shape you scrub through changes in 386 · 495.

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