Period of Disunity (220-589)

For 370 years following Han's collapse, a number of kingdoms and dynasties emerged and fought each other for domination.  The regimes emerged in this period include: the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu (220-280), the Jin Dynasty (265-420), and the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420-589).  Listed below are these regimes and the cities where they set up capital.

 

Period

City Province
  Three Kingdoms      
  Wei 220-265 Luoyang Henan
  Shu 221-263 Chengdu Sichuan
  Wu 222-280 Nanjing Jiangsu
  Jin Dynasty      
  Western Jin 265-316 Luoyang Henan
  Eastern Jin 317-420 Nanjing Jiangsu
  Southern Dynasties      
  Song 420-479 Nanjing Jiangsu
  Qi 479-502 Nanjing Jiangsu
  Liang 502-557 Nanjing Jiangsu
  Chen 557-589 Nanjing Jiangsu
  Northern Dynasties      
  Northern Wei 386-534 Datong in Shanxi, and Luoyang in Henan
  Eastern Wei 534-550 Linzhang Hebei
  Northern Qi 550-577 Linzhang Hebei
  Western Wei 535-557 Xian Shaanxi
  Northern Zhou 557-581 Xian Shaanxi