Editing Later Tang (section)

{{Short description|Chinese imperial dynasty from 923 to 937}}
{{distinguish|text=[[Tang dynasty]] (618–907)}}
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{{Infobox country
|native_name=唐
|conventional_long_name=Tang
|common_name=Later Tang
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|era                    = Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period
|status                 = Empire
|status_text            = 
|empire                 = 
|government_type        = Monarchy
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|year_start             = 923
|year_end               = 937
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|event_start            = Established in [[Daming County|Daming]]
|date_start             = May
|event_end              = Overthrown by [[Liao Dynasty|Khitan]] and [[Gaozu of Later Jin|Shi Jingtang]]
|date_end               = January 11,
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|event1                 = 
|date_event1            = 
|event2                 = 
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|event3                 = 
|date_event3            = 
|event4                 = 
|date_event4            = 
|event_pre              = 
|date_pre               = 
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|p1                     = Jin (Later Tang precursor){{!}}Jìn<sup>1</sup>
|p2                     = Later Liang (Five Dynasties){{!}}Later Liang
|p3                     = Qi (Li Maozhen's state){{!}}Qi
|p4                     = Former Shu
|s1                     = Later Jin (Five Dynasties){{!}}Later Jìn<sup>2</sup>
|s2                     = Jingnan
|s3                     = Later Shu
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|image_map              = 五代后唐（繁）.png
|image_map_caption      = {{color box|#EFD480}} Later Tang 後唐
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|capital                = [[Daming County|Daming]]<br><small>(923)</small><br>[[Luoyang]]<br><small>(923–936)</small>
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|national_motto         = 
|national_anthem        = 
|common_languages       = [[Chinese language|Chinese]]
|religion               = 
|currency               = [[Ancient Chinese coinage|Chinese coin]], [[Cash (Chinese coin)|Chinese cash]]
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|leader1                = [[Li Cunxu]] (Zhuangzong)
|leader2                = [[Li Siyuan]] (Mingzong)
|leader3                = [[Li Conghou]] 
|leader4                = [[Li Congke]]
|year_leader1           = 923–926
|year_leader2           = 926–933
|year_leader3           = 933–934
|year_leader4           = 934–936
|title_leader           = [[#Rulers of the Later Tang|Emperor]]
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|footnotes              = 1.The preceding entity of the Later Tang was the State of Jin, which was established by [[Li Keyong]] in 895 under the [[Tang dynasty]] and existed as an independent state in 907–923. <br>2.With the support of the [[Liao dynasty]].
|today                  = [[China]]
}}

'''Tang''', known in historiography as the '''Later Tang''', was a short-lived [[Dynasties in Chinese history|imperial dynasty of China]] and the second of the [[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period#Five Dynasties|Five Dynasties]] during the [[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period]] in [[History of China|Chinese history]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Zurndorfer|first=Harriet T.|title=War in words transformations of war from antiquity to Clausewitz|year=2010|publisher=De Gruyter|location=Berlin|isbn=9783110245424|pages=92|chapter=Efflorence? Another Look at the Role of War in Song Dynasty China}}</ref>

The first three of the Later Tang's four [[Emperor of China|emperors]] were ethnically [[Shatuo]].{{sfn|Mote|1999|pages=12–13}} The name Tang was used to legitimize itself as the restorer of the [[Tang dynasty]]. Although the Later Tang officially began in 923, the dynasty already existed in the years before, as a polity known in historiography as the [[Jin (Later Tang precursor)|Former Jin]] (907–923).

At its height, Later Tang controlled most of northern China.