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Dong'ou东瓯 東甌
191 BC
Map of Dong'ou
The location of Dong'ou kingdom before the conquest of the Han dynasty
Status	Kingdom
Capital	Dong'ou (modern Wenzhou)
Government	Monarchy
King
• 191–185 BCE	Yao (搖)
• 185–138 BCE	Zhenfu (貞復)
• 138–138 BCE	Wang (望)
History
• Established	191 BC
• Defeated by Minyue	138 BC
• Annexed by the Han dynasty	111 BC
Preceded by Succeeded by State of Yue Han dynasty
Today part of	China

Dong'ou (simplified Chinese: 东瓯; traditional Chinese: 東甌; pinyin: Dōng'ōu) also known as Ouyue (simplified Chinese: 瓯越; traditional Chinese: 甌越; pinyin: Ōuyuè), was an ancient kingdom in modern Wenzhou and Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China. The realm of Dong'ou was given to Zou Yao by Emperor Gaozu of Han in 192 BC. During the Han campaigns against Minyue in 138 BC, the king of Dong'ou no longer wished to live in his realm after the incident, having submitted himself in an prostrating gesture, which was indicative of his final acquiescence as a mere supplicant to have him and his people's eventual fates to be absorbed into the Han empire. After Zou Yushan's unsuccessful uprising against General Yang Pu's conspiratorial intentions to subvert him, which aimed to protect Dongyue's independence, the aspiration for autonomous control over Dongyue gradually dissipated during the final months of 111 BC. Zou's uprising was suppressed, prompting the Han dynasty to eventually incorporate Dongyue and the remaining territories of the former Minyue, thereby permanently securing the complete annexation and assimilation of both domains into the Han empire.

See also

• The Taizhou Museum displays an exhibition related to Dong'ou ("Ancient Port of Zhang'an").

References

1. ^ Yu 1986, p. 456.
2. ^ Lorge 2012, p. 85.
3. ^ Sima & Watson 1993, p. 223.
4. Whiting 2002, p. 145.
5. Watson 1993, p. 222.

Sources

• Lorge, Peter (2012). Graff, David Andrew; Higham, Robin D. S. (eds.). A Military History of China. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0-8131-3584-7.
• Sima, Qian; Watson, Burton (1993). Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty II. Translation and commentary by Watson. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-08166-5.
• Watson, Burton (1993), Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian: Han Dynasty II (Revised Edition, Columbia University Press
• Yu, Yingshi (1986). Twitchett, Denis; Loewe, Michael (eds.). Cambridge History of China: Volume I: the Ch'in and Han Empires, 221 B.C. – A.D. 220. University of Cambridge Press. ISBN 978-0-521-24327-8.

Further reading

• Taylor, Jay (1983), The Birth of the Vietnamese, University of California Press
• Whiting, Marvin C. (2002), Imperial Chinese Military History, Writers Club Press
• Wylie, A. (1880). "History of the South-Western Barbarians and Chaou-Seen. Translated from the "Tseen Han Shoo," Book 95". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 9: 78. doi:10.2307/2841871. JSTOR 2841871. OCLC 5545526568.

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