What is Tang dynasty?
{{Infobox former country | native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|zh-hant|唐|nocat=true}}}} | conventional_long_name = Tang | common_name = Tang dynasty | status = Empire | p1 = Sui dynasty | p2 = Eastern Turkic Khaganate | p3 = Western Turkic Khaganate | p4 = Goguryeo | s1 = Later Liang (Five Dynasties){{!}}Later Liang | s2 = Wu (Ten Kingdoms){{!}}Wu | s3 = Wuyue | s4 = Min (Ten Kingdoms){{!}}Min | s5 = Former Shu | s6 = Khitans | image_map = Tang outline map, 661.svg | image_map_caption = Tang dynasty c. 669. Map of [[China]] during the Tang Dynasty. | capital = {{plainlist| *[[Chang'an]] ({{smaller|618–684 and 705–904}}) *[[Luoyang]] ({{smaller|684–705 and 904–907}})}} | common_languages = [[Middle Chinese]] | religion = {{ublist |[[Chinese Buddhism]] |[[Taoism]] |[[Chinese folk religion]] |[[Church of the East|Nestorianism]] |[[Manichaeism]] |[[Zoroastrianism]]}} | government_type = Monarchy | title_leader = Emperor | leader1 = Emperor Gaozu | year_leader1 = 618–626 {{smaller|(first)}} | leader2 = [[Emperor Taizong of Tang|Emperor Taizong]] | year_leader2 = 626–649 | leader3 = Emperor Xuanzong | year_leader3 = 712–756 | leader4 = Emperor Ai | year_leader4 = 904–907 {{smaller|(last)}} | life_span = {{plainlist| *618–907 *{{nowrap|{{small|{{nobold|690–705: Wu Zhou dynasty}}}}}}}} | event_start = [[Transition from Sui to Tang|Established]] | date_start=June 18, | year_start=618 | event1 = Usurped<br/>by Wu Zetian | date_event1 = 690–705<sup>a</sup> | event2 = An Lushan Rebellion, also called the An–Shi Rebellion [[Traditional Chinese characters|Traditional Chinese]]: 安史之亂) | date_event2 = 755–763<sup>b</sup> | event_end = Abdication in favour of the Later Liang ([[Traditional Chinese characters|Traditional Chinese]]: 後梁) | date_end=June 1, | year_end=907 | stat_year1=715<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Turchin|first1=Peter|last2=Adams|first2=Jonathan M.|last3=Hall|first3=Thomas D | title = East-West Orientation of Historical Empires | journal = Journal of World-systems Research|date=December 2006 |volume=12|issue=2 |page=222