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  • dedicated to the memorial services in honor of the Joseon dynasty kings and ... Korean kings and queens, the excellent state of preservation of the shire complex ...
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  • 神市) literally means "the city of god(s)/spirit(s)" where ... Shinshi (or Sinsi) holds a special place in the minds of Koreans North ...
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  • King Cheoljong (1831 - 1863) (r. 1849-1863) was the 25th king of the ... title=Rulers of Korea(Joseon Dynasty)|years=1849–1863| ...
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  • Gwanghaegun or Prince Gwanghae (1574 – 1641) was the fifteenth king ... Gwanghaegun endeared himself to generations of Koreas for guiding ...
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  • the period after the legendary arrival of Gija in northern (or in the ... Koreans point to Gija as a co-founder of Korean civilization along ...
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  • Korean mythology represents Dangun Wanggeom as the founder of Gojoseon ... Although myth shrouds the origins of the Korean people, the message ...
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  • from 702–737 C.E. as the thirty-third king of the ancient Korean kingdom ... *Rulers of Korea *Unified Silla *Bell of King Seongdeok ...
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  • quot; comes from Shang's tradition of calling royal family members ... The legend of Gija has left clearer historical tracks than the myth ...
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  • Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo (374-413, r. 391-413) was the nineteenth ... Today, King Gwanggaeto the Great is one of two rulers of Korea who ...
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  • served as the twenty-sixth and final king of the five-century long Korean ... an heir. The Dowager Queen Sinjeong, mother of King Heonjong, the king before ...
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  • Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom, located in ... The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the turning away from communism ...
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  • founded the dynasty, leading the remnants of the Liao Dynasty to Central ... The Khitan people rose from among the northern nomadic tribes of China ...
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  • medieval Korean noble and politician of the early Joseon dynasty. He ... in the court. Neo-Confucian scholars in Korea, motivated by a desire to ...
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  • The Silla dynasty, emerging in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula ... *Rulers of Korea *Hwarang *Crown of Silla ==Notes== ==References== ...
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  • Taejo of Goryeo (877-943, r. 918-943 Combining his rule of Taebong ... ), the founder of the Goryeo Dynasty, ruled Korea from the tenth to ...
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  • Taejong (1367-1422, r. 1400-1418) the third king of the Joseon Dynasty ... years=1400–1418|title=Rulers of Korea(Joseon Dynasty)|before=Jeongjong ...
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  • around fourth century B.C.E. in the basins of the Liao and Taedong Rivers ... Dynasty, also romanized as Chosŏn. See also: Names of Korea. ...
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  • In Korea, Buddhist temples are abundant. Many of the oldest and most ... ==Brief History of Korean Buddhism== :See Korean Buddhism for more ...
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  • as the dominant figure in the Republic of Korea's history and particularly ... from the communist North with the assistance of U.S. forces. Park also earned ...
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  • term that refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality transcending ... The roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the multi-ethnic Qing Empire ...
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  • 15, 628 C.E. corresponds to the Seventh Day of the Third Month of 628 C.E ... with good governance and the promotion of a value based social system ...
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  • The Goryeo Dynasty marks the last Buddhist-shaped dynasty in Korea ... Silla, which had united the Three Kingdoms of Korea in 668, weakened ...
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  • The term jade is applied to two different types of rock, nephrite ... During the Stone Age of many cultures, jade was used for axe heads ...
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  • East Asia was one of the last areas to receive Christianity, beginning ... Korean history has long included elements of Shamanism, Confucianism ...
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  • To appreciate the value and the richness of the Korean Sirhak, one ... Therefore Yu Hyông-wôn, Song-ho, Yi Ik and the thinkers of the Northern ...
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  • Gyeongju is a city (see Subdivisions of South Korea) and prominent ... Gyeongju was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Silla, a fact to ...
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  • multiple eaves, common in China, Japan, Korea, Nepal, Vietnam, and other ... The architectural structure of the stupa has spread across Asia, taking ...
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  • Yi Hwang (李滉, 이황 1501-1570) was one of the two most prominent ... in the Joseon court and bureaucracy for most of his life, holding 29 government ...
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  • fight against each other for the control of political power. Some civil ... and is determined by usage, the effect of a civil war upon the population ...
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  • Korean Buddhism is distinguished from other forms of Buddhism by its ... Korean Buddhism today consists mostly of the Seon lineage. Seon has ...
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  • province, and the northern and central parts of the Korean peninsula, was one ... the second century B.C.E., around the fall of Gojoseon, an earlier kingdom ...
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  • ancient kingdom established after the fall of Goguryeo. After Goguryeo's ... Balhae occupied southern parts of Manchuria (Northeast China) and ...
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  • ::This article is about the traditional culture of Korea. For the ... The traditional culture of Korea has its mythical beginnings 5000 ...
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  • Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four ... virtue.” Legalists held utilitarian views of humanity and received support ...
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  • Korean painting includes paintings made in Korea or by overseas Koreans ... influenced by Chinese art and the exchange of cultural influences between ...
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  • August 660 C.E.), a kingdom in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula originally ... Onjo of Baekje, the son of Goguryeo's founder Jumong, founded ...
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  • This article is an overview of the history of Korea, up to the division ... Paleolithic times. According to legend, Korea's first kingdom, Gojoseon ...
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  • Buddhist art refers to the rich and diverse representations of religious ... Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...
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  • family known as the Liu clan. The history of this dynasty divides into two ... The reign of the Han Dynasty, which lasted for 400 years, is commonly ...
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  • 28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the world's foremost exemplary ... Confucius taught personal and public morality, correctness of social ...
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  • born Hiyoshi-maru日吉丸; coming of age (Genpuku) as Kinoshita ... Hideyoshi is noted in Japanese history for a number of political and ...
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  • until 1910, lasted for five centuries as one of the world's longest running ... Shortly following the declaration of the Korean Empire in 1897, the ...
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  • founded, being the first to adopt the title of "emperor" (huangdi ... officials in his administration as a means of controlling the Han people ...
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  • A hierarchical Sinocentric model of international relations, dominated ... place at the center with varying degrees of success. The Sinocentric tribute ...
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  • Eastern) dragon. Unlike the Western dragon of Europe that is representative ... dragon is benevolent and powerful, bringer of good fortune. Its image was ...
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  • The Göktürkler(s) or Köktürkler(s) were a Turkic people of ancient ... ) as the main Turkic power in the region and took hold of the lucrative ...
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  • IAST Ayodhyā), an ancient city of India, holds a cherished place ... With the rise of the Gupta Empire (320 to 550 C.E.), Hinduism again ...
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  • from 538 to 710, was a period in the history of Japan during which the capital ... during the Asuka period, borrowing systems of political and social organization ...
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  • The Nara period ( 奈良時代, Nara-jidai) of the history of Japan ... During the Nara period, the power and influence of Buddhism in Japan ...
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  • [[Image:Gamla uppsala.jpg|350px|thumb|The Royal mounds of Gamla Uppsala ... A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over ...
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