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.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Northern Wei — the shape you scrub through changes in 386 · 440 · 467.
The standard English-language account of the post-Jin division of China, including the Northern Wei's reunification of the north.
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