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Emperor An of Han

Emperor of Han China from 106 to 125

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Emperor An of Han was an Emperor of the Han dynasty and the sixth emperor of the Eastern Han, ruling from 106 to 125. He was a grandson of Emperor Zhang and cousin to Emperor Shang of Han, who died while Deng Sui, the empress dowager, served as regent.

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“Emperor An of Han” enters the record as emperor of Han China from 106 to 125. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Emperor and China can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Emperor An of Han” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.