Liao Taizu Yeluyi
No one person is responsible for the establishment and consolidation of the Liao Dynasty. The one person many scholars point to, however, is the great Yelu abaoji (耶律阿保机), who was the founder of the Liao Dynasty and ruled from 907 to 926.
Yelu abaoji was born in 872 as the son of a Khitan tr......