Yan

ancient state in northern China during the Shang, Zhou, and Warring States periods (11th century BC – 222 BC)
Country ancient_chinese_state Q1055713
Yan
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Yan

Summary

Yan is an ancient Chinese state[1]. Yan draws 177 Wikipedia views per month (ancient_chinese_state category, ranking #9 of 64).[2]

Key Facts

  • Yan's image is recorded as YanZhuan.jpg[3].
  • Yan's continent is recorded as Asia[4].
  • Yan's instance of is recorded as ancient Chinese state[5].
  • Yan's capital is recorded as Western Zhou Yan State Capital Museum[6].
  • Yan's capital is recorded as Ji[7].
  • Yan's capital is recorded as Doudian City Walls[8].
  • Yan's capital is recorded as Xiadu[9].
  • Yan's currency is recorded as knife money[10].
  • Yan's currency is recorded as spade money[11].
  • Yan's locator map image is recorded as EN-YAN260BCE.jpg[12].
  • Yan's locator map image is recorded as ZH-燕国地图260BCE.jpg[13].
  • Yan's part of is recorded as Seven Warring States[14].
  • Yan's part of is recorded as Warring States period[15].
  • Yan's part of is recorded as Spring and Autumn period[16].
  • Yan's part of is recorded as Eastern Zhou[17].
  • Yan's part of is recorded as Western Zhou[18].
  • Yan's part of is recorded as Zhou dynasty[19].
  • Yan's part of is recorded as Twelve Vassals[20].
  • Yan's Commons category is recorded as Yan (state)[21].
  • Yan was dissolved in -0222-00-00T00:00:00Z[22].
  • Yan's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01y1qv[23].
  • Yan's cause of destruction is recorded as Qin's Wars of Unification[24].
  • Yan's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Yan (state)[25].
  • Yan's described by source is recorded as Records of the Grand Historian[26].
  • Yan's replaces is recorded as Ji[27].

Body

Geography

Yan's continent is recorded as Asia[4]. Part of include Seven Warring States[14], a group[28], in Eastern Zhou[29]; Warring States period[15], a historical period[30]; Spring and Autumn period[16], a historical period[31]; Eastern Zhou[17], an era[32], in Chinese Empire[33], founded in -0771[34]; Western Zhou[18], a Chinese dynasty[35], founded in -1046[36]; and Zhou dynasty[19], a Chinese dynasty[37], in Chinese Empire[38], founded in -1046[39].

Designation and Status

Yan's instance of is recorded as ancient Chinese state[5].

Why It Matters

Yan draws 177 Wikipedia views per month (ancient_chinese_state category, ranking #9 of 64).[2] Yan has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] Yan is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [40] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [41] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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