Han was a minor Chinese state under the Zhou dynasty. It was centered on present-day Hancheng in Shaanxi and Hejin in Shanxi. The state was created for a sonknown only as the "Marquess of Han" of the King Wu of Zhou左傳僖公二十四年 in the 11th century BC. The rulers held the rank of marquess and ancestral name of Ji ().春秋會要卷一頁三十八 Han was conquered by the Jin and enfeoffed to Wuzi of Han, a descendant of the Marquis Mu of Jin, in the 8th century BC.
See also Han (SE Zhou state) Han (disambiguation)
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