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Yang Duan
Yang Duan was, according to family tradition, a man from Taiyuan who recovered Bozhou, around modern Zunyi in Guizhou, from Nanzhao forces in 876. Granted hereditary authority, he founded the Yang chieftain house that ruled the Bozhou chiefdom for more than seven centuries until the Ming destroyed it in 1600.
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