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Encyclopedia > Bunseo of Baekje
Bunseo of Baekje
Korean name
Hangul: 분서왕
Hanja: 汾西王
Revised Romanization: Bunseo-wang
McCune-Reischauer: Punsŏ-wang

Bunseo of Baekje (reigned 298304) was the tenth king of the Korean Baekje kingdom, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. He continued to wage war against the Chinese Lelang commandery whose forces had killed his father, King Chaekgye. Hangul is the native alphabet used to write the Korean language, as opposed to the Hanja system borrowed from China. ... Hanja (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 McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. ... Events Constantius Chlorus overthrows the Alamanni in the territory of the Lingones (Langres) and strengthened the Rhine frontier Christians are expelled from the Roman army Baths of Diocletian built in Rome Births Athanasius of Alexandria, bishop and opponent of Arianism Deaths Diophantus, mathematician (approximate date) King Chaekgye of Baekje Categories... Events Major Wu Hu (barbarian) uprising in China; the Hun Liu Yuan establish the Han kingdom, beginning the Sixteen Kingdoms era in China. ... Baekje was a kingdom in southwestern 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 4th century CE until Sillas triumph over Goguryeo in 668. ... Lelang (樂浪郡 le4 lang4 jun4) was one of the Chinese commanderies which was kept in the Korean Peninsula over 400 years until Goguryeo conquers it in 313 A.D. History In 108 B.C. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered the area under Youqu (右渠), a grandson of Wei...


In 304 he captured a western district of the Lelang commandery. According to the Samguk Sagi, the governor of the commandery thereupon sent an assassin who poisoned him. Samguk Sagi (Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms) is a historical record of the Three Kingdoms of Korea: Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla. ... Commandry (British English), or commandery (American English), was the smallest division of the European landed estate or manor under the control of a commendator, or commander, of an order of knights. ...


See also

  • History of Korea
  • List of Korea-related topics


This article is about the history of Korea. ... This is a list of Wikipedia articles on Korea-related people, places, things, and concepts. ...

Preceded by:
King Chaekgye
Kings of Baekje
298–304
Succeeded by:
King Biryu


Korea has been ruled by a number of kingdoms/empires and republics over the last several millennia. ... Biryu of Baekje (reigned 304–344) was the eleventh king of the ancient Korean kingdom of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. ...


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Baekje History Museum (818 words)
According to Baekjebongi in Samguksagi, Baekje settled its territory in the 13th year (6 B.C.) of King Onjo and the boundaries were Paeha in the north and Ungcheon in the south and the sea in the west and Juyang in the east.
After Baekje was dispossessed of the basin of the Han-gang(river) by Goguryeo, Baekje may have concentrated all its energies on the stabilization of royal authority and the management of the south for a while.
Baekje’s efforts to recapture the basin of the Han-gang(river) bore fruit during the reign of King Seong.
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