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AN (安 AN1)

Specialty Definition: King An of Zhou

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King An of Zhou, ch: 周安王, pinyin: zhōu ān wáng, wg: King An of Chou, was the thirty-second sovereign of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty and the twentieth of Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

Personal information

Family name	Ji (姬 jī) in Chinese
Given name	Jiao (驕 jīao) in Chinese
Era name	none
Father	King Kao of Zhou
Mother	unknown
Wife	unknown
Children	King Lie of Zhou and King Xian of Zhou
Duration of reign	401 BC-376 BC
Tomb	unknown
Temple name	unknown
Courtesy name	unknown
Posthumous name	安 (pinyin ān), literary meaning: "stable" or quiet"

Preceded by: King Weilie of Zhou

Zhou Dynasty

Succeeded by: King Lie of Zhou

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "King An of Zhou."

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