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{{Short description|State of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period}}
{{distinguish|text=[[Later Jin (Five Dynasties)|Later Jin]] (936–947) also during the Five Dynasties period}}
{{Infobox country
| native_name            = 晉
| conventional_long_name = Jin
| common_name            = Jin
| era                    = Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
| status                 = Empire
| status_text            = <!--- A free text to describe status the top of the infobox. Use sparingly. --->
| empire                 = 
| government_type        = Principality
<!--- Rise and fall, events, years and dates --->
<!-- only fill in the start/end event entry if a specific article exists. Don't just say "abolition" or "declaration"-->| year_start             = ?
| year_end               = 923
| year_exile_start       = <!--- Year of start of exile (if dealing with exiled government - status="Exile") --->
| year_exile_end         = <!--- Year of end of exile (leave blank if still in exile) --->
| event_start            = <!--- Default: "Established" --->
| date_start             = <!--- Optional: Date of establishment, enter dates in this format 1 January 1801--->
| event_end              = <!--- Default: "Disestablished" --->
| date_end               = <!--- Optional: Date of disestablishment --->
| event1                 = <!--- Optional: other events between "start" and "end" --->
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| event_pre              = Li Keyong created the Prince of Jin
| date_pre               = 896
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| date_post              = <!--- Flag navigation: Preceding and succeeding entities p1 to p5 and s1 to s5 --->
| p1                     = Tang dynasty
| flag_p1                = <!--- Default: "Flag of {{{p1}}}.svg" (size 30) --->
| image_p1               = <!--- Use: [[File:Sin escudo.svg|20px|Image missing]] --->
| p2                     = Yan (Five Dynasties)
| flag_p2                = 
| p3                     = Zhao (Five Dynasties)
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| s1                     = Later Tang
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| symbol                 = <!--- Link target under symbol image. Default: Coat of arms of {{{common_name}}} --->
| symbol_type            = <!--- Displayed text for link under symbol. Default "Coat of arms" --->
| image_map              = Later Liang.png
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| capital                = Taiyuan
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| currency               = [[Ancient Chinese coinage|Chinese coin]], [[Cash (Chinese coin)|Chinese cash]] 
<!--- Titles and names of the first and last leaders and their deputies --->| leader1                = Li Keyong
| leader2                = Li Cunxu
| leader3                = 
| leader4                = 
| year_leader1           = 896/907–908
| year_leader2           = 908–923
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| title_leader           = Prince
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| title_deputy           = <!--- Default: "Prime minister" --->
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| house1                 = <!--- Name of first chamber --->
| type_house1            = <!--- Default: "Upper house"--->
| house2                 = <!--- Name of second chamber --->
| type_house2            = <!--- Default: "Lower house"--->
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| stat_area1             = <!--- area in square kílometres (w/o commas or spaces), area in square miles is calculated --->
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| today                  = [[China]]
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'''Jin''' (晉; 883 (or 896 or 907)–923), also known as '''Hedong''' (河東) and '''Former Jin''' (前晉) in [[Chinese historiography]], was a [[Dynasties in Chinese history|dynastic state of China]] and the predecessor of the [[Later Tang|Later Tang dynasty]]. Its [[Chinese sovereign|princely rulers]] were the ethnic [[Shatuo]] warlords [[Li Keyong]] and [[Li Cunxu]] (Li Keyong's son). Although the [[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period#Five Dynasties|Five Dynasties period]] began only in 907, Li Keyong's territory which centered around modern [[Shanxi]] can be referred to as Jin as early as 896, when he was officially created the [[Li Keyong|Prince of Jin]] by the failing and powerless [[Tang dynasty]] court, or even (by extension, anachronistically) as early as 883, when he was created the ''[[jiedushi]]'' military governor of Hedong Circuit, which controlled more or less the same territory.

==History==
The Jin rulers [[Li Keyong]] and Li Keyong's son [[Emperor Zhuangzong of Later Tang|Li Cunxu]], of [[Shatuo]] extraction, claimed to be the rightful subjects of the defunct [[Tang dynasty]] (618–907), in a struggle against the usurper state of the [[Later Liang (Five Dynasties)|Later Liang]] dynasty.

At the time of the Tang dynasty's fall in 907, the Jin state consisted of most of Shanxi (Linfen, Hezhong, Jincheng, Qinyang were taken by Later Liang) and several parts of Inner Mongolia. In 912, Jin took over Jincheng and in 913, conquered Yan, and eventually expanded to cover all of the territory north of the [[Yellow River]].  Eventually, in 923, Li Cunxu, claiming rightful succession to the Tang throne, declared himself emperor, transitioning his state to the [[Later Tang]] dynasty, which shortly after destroyed the Later Liang dynasty.

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