The Duan held Liaoxi, the country between the Murong and the Chinese frontier. For a generation they were the strongest of the Xianbei houses in the north-east. They took service with the Jin against their neighbours. In the 330s the Murong destroyed them.
Their career has the ordinary shape of a Xianbei house: a frontier alliance, a generation of strength, and absorption by a stronger neighbour of the same confederation. The Murong are unusual because they did not end that way.
Literature
- Peter B. Golden, An Introduction to the History of the Turkic Peoples (1992)
What links here1
- Lineages
- Yuwen
Cite this article
Yavuz, Emre-E. “Duan.” Turkic Atlas, revised 20 October 2026. https://turkicatlas.org/lineages/duan/
Last revised: 20 October 2026
