The Southern Liang was a dynastic state of China listed as one of the Sixteen Kingdoms in Chinese historiography. Members of the ruling Tufa clan were of Xianbei ethnicity and distant relatives of the
Sixteen Kingdoms 400 AD
Sixteen Kingdoms 410 AD
The Hutai Ruins (虎台遗址) in present-day Xining, Qinghai, one of the few remains of the Southern Liang.
The Later Liang was a dynastic state of China and one of the Sixteen Kingdoms in Chinese history. It was founded by the Lü family of the Di ethnicity and given the prefix of "Later" in historiography
Southern Liang (Sixteen Kingdoms)
…386, their chieftain, Tufa Sifujian (禿髮思復鞬) allied with Zhang Dayu, who sought to restore the Former Liang, but Dayu was defeated and executed by the Later Liang. At the time, the Tufa were living around Guangwu Commandery (廣武郡; around present-day Yongdeng County, Gansu) in Liang province. After Sifujian died…
Later Liang in the northwest
The Kumarajiva Temple Pagoda (罗什寺塔) in present-day Wuwei, Gansu. The temple and pagoda were first built during the Later Liang and underwent several expansions and repairs in the later dynasties.