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Later Tang: Polity Style: 923-937

13 May 923 establishment of the Later Tang is proclaimed in Weizhou (changed to the prefecture (fǔ | ) of Xingtang, now near the modern city of Daming, Hebei) (Old History of the Five Dynasties, ch. 29; New History of the Five Dynasties, ch. 5)
13 May 923 - 11 Jan 937 Dà Táng (大唐) | Great Tang [1]
11 Jan 937 polity collapsed after a military defeat by the armies of the Later Jin and the death (11 Jan 937) of the last emperor of the Later Tang