The Xianbei state or Xianbei confederation was a nomadic empire which existed in modern-day Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, northern Xinjiang, Northeast China...

The Xianbei (/ʃjɛnˈbeɪ/; simplified Chinese: 鲜卑; traditional Chinese: 鮮卑; pinyin: Xiānbēi) were an ancient nomadic people that once resided in the eastern...

empires, including the Xiongnu (3rd century BC–1st century AD), the Xianbei state (c. AD 93–234), the Rouran Khaganate (330–555), the First (552–603)...

(337–370), a Xianbei state in present-day Hebei Western Yan (384–394), a Xianbei state in present-day Shanxi Later Yan (384–409), a Xianbei state during Sixteen...

(approximate date) Murong Chao, emperor of the Xianbei state Southern Yan (d. 410) Murong Xi, emperor of the Xianbei state Later Yan (d. 407) Pulcheria, daughter...

emperor of Japan Tribigild, Ostrogothic general Tufa Wugu, prince of the Xianbei state Southern Liang Yuan Shansong, official and poet of the Jin Dynasty...

supreme rulers used the title of "khagan", a popular title borrowed from the Xianbei. The Rouran Khaganate lasted from the late 4th century until the middle...

Mu4-jung2; LHC: *mɑC-joŋ; EMC: *mɔh-juawŋ) or Muren refers to an ethnic Xianbei tribe who are attested from the time of Tanshihuai (reigned 156–181). Different...

proto-Mongolic Xianbei in the north and the Wuhuan in the south. After the Xiongnu were driven back into their homeland by the Chinese (48 AD), the Xianbei (in particular)...

emperor of the Liu Song Dynasty (d. 453) Fu Xunying, empress of the Xianbei state Later Yan Gratian, Roman usurper John Chrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople...

27 – Murong Bao, emperor of the Xianbei state Later Yan (b. 355) August 15 – Lan Han, official of the Xianbei state Lan Yan Didymus the Blind, Alexandrian...

origin. They were local Xianbei tribes who became independent after the Xianbei state dissolved in 234 with the death of Budugen. In the Book of Wei, it is...

prince of the Xianbei state Northern Wei (d. 451) Gunderic, king of the Vandals and Alans (b. 379) Qifu Chipan, prince of the Xianbei state Western Qin...

Warring States in modern eastern Henan Northern Zhou (北周; 557–581), a Xianbei state ruling western China from present-day Xi'an during the Northern and...

Guangwu of Han. The Xianbei reached their peak under Tanshihuai Khan (reigned 156–181) who expanded the vast, but short lived, Xianbei state (93–234). Three...

Polar bear Larix sibirica Larix gmelinii Picea obovata Pinus pumila Xianbei state (1st–3rd century CE) First Turkic Khaganate (6th–7th century) Eastern...

Manchukuo was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China that existed from 1932 until its dissolution in 1945. It was ostensibly founded...

eventually conquered by the Xianbei-led Northern Zhou dynasty in 577. Northern Qi was the successor state of the Chinese Xianbei state of Eastern Wei and was...

27 – Murong Bao, emperor of the Xianbei state Later Yan (b. 355) August 15 – Lan Han, official of the Xianbei state Lan Yan Didymus the Blind, Alexandrian...

meaning "perpetual, eternal". Murong Yong was the last emperor of the Xianbei state Western Yan. Li Yong (prince) (died 838), Tang Dynasty prince. Li Yong...

or "Five Hu", were the Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, and Qiang. Of these five ethnic groups, the Xiongnu and Xianbei were nomadic peoples from the northern...

species within this group vary Tufa Wugu, founding prince of the Chinese/Xianbei state Southern Liang Wugu, an ancient tribal people in Inner Asia whose descendants...

prince of the Chinese state Northern Liang Lü Zuan, emperor of the Di state Later Liang Murong Sheng, emperor of the Xianbei state Later Yan (b. 373) Empress...

Chinese forces including Xianbei but also of Baekje, southwestern part of Korean peninsula. Particularly, the Xianbei state of Former Yan invaded the...

listed alphabetically. The earliest empire which can with certainty be stated to have been larger than all previous empires was that of Upper and Lower...

of the Xianbei state Western Yan Wang Sengbian (?–394), general of the Liang dynasty Tuoba Gui (371–409), founding emperor of the Xianbei state Northern...

several historical groups besides the Manchus, including the Yemaek the Xianbei, the Shiwei, and the Khitans. The area is also home to many Mongols and...

believed to be predominantly Mongolic- and Para-Mongolic-speaking, yet Xianbei were stated to descend from the Donghu, whom Sima Qian distinguished from the...

state/Di (Wu Hu) in the Sixteen Kingdoms period, 351 AD Later Qin (后秦), Qiang state in the Sixteen Kingdoms period, 384 AD Western Qin (西秦), Xianbei state...

Neoplatonist philosopher (approximate date); Murong Wei, emperor of the Xianbei state Former Yan (d. 385); Plutarch of Athens, Greek philosopher (approximate...