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Kaifeng is a city in northern China, which served as Imperial capital in various periods of Chinese history, most prominently during the [[Northern Song Dynasty]].
One of the small, early, states which took Kaifeng as its capital was the [[Liang Dynasty]] ([[907]]-[[923]]), one of the [[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms]] which emerged in the aftermath of the fall of the [[Tang Dynasty]].
During the Northern Song Dynasty, the city was known as Baijing. In the late years of the Northern Song, the city, roughly 60 km<sup>2</sup> in area, housed over one million people - a larger population than London would see until five hundred years later.<ref>Valerie Hansen, ''The Open Empire'', New York: W.W. Norton & Co (2000), 281.</ref>
Baijing fell to invasion from the [[Jurchen]] [[Jin Dynasty]] in [[1127]]; the Jurchens surrounded the city and took prisoner [[Emperor Huizong]], along with much of the Imperial family. Kaifeng was then controlled by the Jin for over a hundred years, from 1127 until the Jin fell to the [[Mongols]] in [[1234]]. It would remain under Mongol control until the establishment of the [[Ming Dynasty]] in [[1368]].
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