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Great Xia 大夏 | |||||||||
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 Ming Xia at theYuan dynasty's end | |||||||||
| Capital | Chongqing | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
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• 1363–1366 | Ming Yuzhen | ||||||||
• 1366–1371 | Ming Sheng | ||||||||
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• Established | 1363 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1371 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | China | ||||||||
TheMing Xia (明夏; 1363–1371), officially theGreat Xia, was a short-livedChinese dynasty in modernSichuan andChongqing during the chaotic lateYuan dynasty. It was founded by theRed Turban rebel generalMing Yuzhen whose army expelled Yuan loyalists from the region in the late 1350s.
In 1363, Ming declared himself Emperor of Great Xia, with the capital in Chongqing. He tried to conquerYunnan from the warlordBasalawarmi but failed. After his death in 1366, his teenage son, Ming Sheng, succeeded him, but the empire began to disintegrate into regional military commands. In 1371, theMing dynasty under emperorZhu Yuanzhang made a two-pronged attack and conquered Ming Xia relatively easily. Ming Sheng surrendered, was exiled toGoryeo, and then became the progenitor of the KoreanNamwon Seung clan,Yeonan Myeong clan andSeochok Myeong clan.
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