sixteen prefectures造句

• The Sixteen Prefectures would remain in their possession until that time.
• The Song advanced on the Sixteen Prefectures in three columns.
• The other major exception was a region known as the Sixteen Prefectures.
• They forced the Later Jin to cede the strategic Sixteen Prefectures to the Liao.
• Jurchen military success and their effective control over the Sixteen Prefectures gave them more leverage.
• This territory, called The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, included a part of northern Shanxi.
• The Later Zhou dynasty attacked Liao positions in 958 in an attempt to regain the Sixteen Prefectures.
• After the fall of the Liao dynasty, the Song dynasty wanted the Sixteen Prefectures as promised.
• In the Five Dynasties period, Youzhou was one of Sixteen Prefectures ceded to the Khitans of Manchuria.
• The Sixteen Prefectures had become the springboard from which the Liao dynasty would exert its influence on northern China.
• After the Northern Han was destroyed by the Song, the emperor decided to march on Liao holdings in the Sixteen Prefectures.
• Shi Jingtang, the Later Jin ruler who had ceded the Sixteen Prefectures to the Khitan in 937, died in 942.
• The two nations agreed to jointly invade the Liao and split captured territories, with most of the Sixteen Prefectures going to the Song.
• Beginning in 999, the Liao would use the Sixteen Prefectures as the launching pad for victorious, but inconsequential attacks on the Song.
• In return for their aid, Shi Jingtang promised annual tribute and the Sixteen Prefectures ( modern northern Hebei and Beijing ) to the Khitans.
• It was not the principle capital of the dynasty but rather was designated as the southern capital after the Khitan acquired the contentious Sixteen Prefectures in 935.
• The Khitan took control of the Sixteen Prefectures south of the Later Jin Dynasty ( 936-947 ), which ruled only a small part of China.
• When the Song were successful in finally incorporating the Northern Han in 979, the emperor decided to launch an offensive against the Liao in the Sixteen Prefectures.
• The Southern Circuit largely formed out of a portion of the Sixteen Prefectures that had been ceded to the Liao Empire by Emperor Later Jin dynasty in 937.
• With the Sixteen Prefectures, the Khitan now possessed all the passes and fortifications that controlled access to the plains of northern China, including the main Great Wall line.