King Bojang (?-682, r. 642-668) was the 28th and last monarch of the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. After the kingdom's fall, he served for a time as a military governor for the Tang Dynasty. The period of his rule over Goguryeo is recounted in the final two books of the Goguryeo annals in the Samguk Sagi. The Korean language (한국어 or ì¡°ì„ ì–´, see below) is the most widely used language in Korea, and is the official language of both North and South Korea. ... Hangul (hangul: 한글; revised: hangeul; McCune-Reischauer: hangÅ­l) is the native alphabet used to write the Korean language, as opposed to the Hanja system borrowed from China. ... Hanja (hangul: 한자; hanja: 漢字; revised: hanja; McCune-Reischauer: hancha; lit. ... The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ... McCune-Reischauer is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced (a modified) McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. ... // Events Leo II elected pope. ... Events August 5 - In the Battle of Maserfield, Penda king of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald, king of Bernicia. ... Events Childeric II succeeds Clotaire III as Frankish king Constantine IV becomes Byzantine Emperor, succeeding Constans II Theodore of Tarsus made archbishop of Canterbury. ... A monarch (see sovereign) is a type of ruler or head of state. ... Goguryeo (37 BC-668) was an empire in Manchuria and northern Korea. ... The Three Kingdoms of Korea were Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla, which dominated the Korean peninsula and parts of Manchuria for much of the 1st millennium CE. The Three Kingdoms period in Korea is usually considered to run from the 1st century BCE (overlapping with the Samhan period in southern Korea... Also the name of a rock band. ... We dont have an article called Samguk sagi Start this article Search for Samguk sagi in. ...

King Bojang was the nephew of King Yeongnyu. In 642, the general Yeon Gaesomun carried out a coup d'etat and slew King Yeongnyu together with many of his supporters. Bojang was then placed on the throne. Yeon Gaesomun (? - 666), was a Goguryeo general of noble birth. ... A coup détat, or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group that just replaces the top power figures. ...

For most of his reign, King Bojang was a puppet ruler, giving a veneer of legitimacy to Yeon Gaesomun's military rule. For example, at Yeon's instigation he supported Taoism and issued edicts repressing Buddhism in the country, which had formerly been officially Buddhist. A puppet state is a state whose government, though notionally of the same culture as the governed people - owes its existence (or other major debt) to being installed, supported or controlled by a more powerful entity, typically a foreign power. ... The Chinese character Tao [Way]. Taoism (sometimes written as Daoism) is the English name for (a) the Chinese folk religion; (b) a family of organized Chinese religious movements such as the Zhengyi (Orthodox One) or Quanzhen (Complete Reality) sects, which collectively trace back to Zhang Daoling in the late Han... The term Buddha is a word in ancient Indian languages including Pāli and Sanskrit which means one who has awakened. It is derived from the verbal root budh, meaning to awaken or to be enlightened, and to comprehend. It is written in devanagari script as Hindi: and pronounced as...

After the death of Yeon Gaesomun in 666, Bojang was unable to gain control over the country, which instead was wracked by a succession struggle between Yeon's sons. Weakened by this struggle, the Goguryeo capital fell to Tang and Silla forces in the ninth lunar month of 668, and King Bojang was captured. He was taken into exile by the Tang forces. This page is about the year AD 666. ... Silla (also denoted as Shilla) was one of the three kingdoms of ancient Korea. ... In lunar calendars, a lunar month is the time between two successive similar syzygies (new moons or full moons). ...

In 677, faced by increasing problems ruling the former inhabitants of Goguryeo, Tang crowned him "King of Joseon" and put him in charge of the Liaodong commandery of the Protectorate General to Pacify the East. However, King Bojang reportedly continued to foment rebellions against Tang, forming alliances with the Mohe tribes. He was eventually banished to Szechuan in 681, and died the following year. // Events Battle of Syllaeum: Arab fleet destroyed by Byzantines Tang China declares the deposed King Bojang of Goguryeo King of Joseon, placing him in charge of the Liaodong area under the Protectorate General to Pacify the East. ... Joseon or Chosun (Korean: ì¡°ì„ ; Hanja: 朝鮮; Revised: Joseon; McCune-Reischauer: Chosŏn; Chinese: CháoxiÇŽn; Japanese: Chōsen) is a name for Korea, as used in the following cases: As part of the name of several ancient kingdoms (including Gojoseon, Gija Joseon, and Wiman Joseon); During most of the Joseon... The Liaodong Peninsula (sim. ... The Protectorate-General to Pacify the East was a military government established at Pyongyang by Tang Dynasty China in 668. ... The Mohe (靺鞨, Korean: Malgal, 말갈), were a Tungusic tribe in ancient Manchuria. ... Sichuan (Chinese: 四川; pinyin: Sìchuān; Wade-Giles: Ssu-ch`uan; non-standard transliteration: Szechwan) is a province in central-western China with its capital at Chengdu. ... // Events August 9 - The Bulgars win the war with the Byzantine Empire; the latter signs a peace treaty, which is considered as the birth-date of Bulgaria Wilfrid of York is expelled from Northumbria by Ecgfrith and retires into Sussex Births Deaths January 10 - Pope Agatho Ebroin, Mayor of the...

Because King Bojang was the last ruler of Goguryeo, he did not receive a temple name after his death. Temple names (Traditional Chinese: 廟號 Simplified Chinese: 庙号 Pinyin: miào hào;), are commonly used when naming most Chinese, Vietnamese (such dynasties as Tran,Anterior Lê and Nguyen Dynasty) and most Korean rulers of the Goryeo and Joseon Dynasties. ...

See also

• History of Korea
• List of Korea-related topics
• Three Kingdoms of Korea