Southern Song: Polity Style: 420-479 - Archontology
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Southern Song: Polity Style: 420-479

10 Jul 420 Liú Yù (劉裕), holding the title Sòng gōng (宋公), acceded to the throne in Jiankang (within the territory of the modern city of Nanjing) (Book of Song, ch. 3; History of the Southern Dynasties, ch. 1)
10 Jul 420 - 27 May 479 Sòng () | Song
27 May 479 polity collapsed after the last emperor of Southern Song relinquished the throne (the first emperor of Southern Qi aceeded on 29 May 479) (Book of Song, ch. 10; History of the Southern Dynasties, ch. 3)