Jin (Later Tang precursor)

Jin
?–923
CapitalTaiyuan
GovernmentPrincipality
Prince 
• 896/907–908
Li Keyong
• 908–923
Li Cunxu
Historical eraFive Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
• Li Keyong created the Prince of Jin
896
• Established
?
• Disestablished
923
CurrencyChinese coin, Chinese cash
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Tang dynasty
Yan (Five Dynasties)
Zhao (Five Dynasties)
Later Tang
Today part ofChina

Jin (晉; 883 (or 896 or 907)–923), also known as Hedong (河東) and Former Jin (前晉) in Chinese historiography, was a dynastic state of China and the predecessor of the Later Tang dynasty. Its princely rulers were the ethnic Shatuo warlords Li Keyong and Li Cunxu (Li Keyong's son). Although the 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 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.