Later Liang (Sixteen Kingdoms)

Later Liang (後涼)
酒泉 (387–389),
三河 (389–396),
涼 (396–403)
Later Liang (後涼) 酒泉 (387–389),; 三河 (389–396),; 涼 (396–403)
386–403
	Later Liang in the northwest
Capital	Guzang
Government	Monarchy
Tian Wang
• 386–400	Lü Guang
• 400	Lü Shao
• 401–403	Lü Zuan
• 403–406	Lü Long
History
• Established	386
• Lü Guang's claiming of imperial title	396
• Southern Liang's and Northern Liang's independence	397
• Disestablished	403
• Lü Long's death	416
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Former Qin
Southern Liang (Sixteen Kingdoms)
Northern Liang
Later Qin
Today part of	China; Kyrgyzstan

The Later Liang (simplified Chinese: 后凉; traditional Chinese: 後凉; pinyin: Hòu Liáng; 386–403) was a state of the Sixteen Kingdoms during the Jin Dynasty (266–420) in China.^[1] It was founded by the Lü family of the Di ethnicity.

All rulers of the Later Liang proclaimed themselves "Heavenly Prince" (Tian Wang).

Rulers of the Later Liang[]

Later Liang rulers in a 14th-century manuscript of Rashid al-Din's world history, the Jami' al-Tawarikh

Temple name	Posthumous name	Personal name	Duration of reign	Era names
Taizu	Yiwu	Lü Guang	386–400	Tai'an (太安) 386–389 Linjia (麟嘉) 389–396 Longfei (龍飛) 396–400
–		Lü Shao	400	–
–	Ling	Lü Zuan	400–401	Xianning (咸寧) 400–401
–		Lü Long	401–403	Shending (神鼎) 401–403

Later Liang

Lo Polou 吕婆楼

Lü Guang 呂光 (338–400)
Yiwu 懿武
(r. 386–400)

Lu Bao 吕宝
(d. 392)

Lu Zuan 呂纂 (d. 401)
Ling 靈
r. (397–)399-401

Lü Shao 呂紹 (d. 399)
Yin 隱
(r. 399)

Lü Long 吕隆
(d. 416)
r. 401-403(–416)

^ Grousset, Rene (1970). The Empire of the Steppes. Rutgers University Press. pp. 59–60. ISBN 0-8135-1304-9.