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Nonsan is a city in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea. It is located at 36°12′N 127°5′E. Nonsan is also called Nolmoi, meaning dusk(y) or yellow mountain; "Nonsan" means rice paddy/paddies + mountain(s). This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ...
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South Korea is divided into 8 provinces (do), 1 special autonomous province (teukbyeol jachido), 6 metropolitan cities (gwangyeoksi), and 1 special city (teukbyeolsi). ...
South Chungcheong is a province in the west of South Korea. ...
History During the Samhan period, Nonsan is believed to have been part of Mahan territory. In the Baekje period, the district belonged to Whangdeungyasan-gun which included Yoeryasan-hyeon and Jinaksan-hyeon and Deokgeun-gun which included Gajinae-hyeon. Later in the Silla period, it was divided into two different towns with the new names; Deogeun and Hwangsan. Also, Yoeryasan ["san" meaning mountain], Jinaksan, and Gajinae were renamed Nisan, Seoksan, and Sijin, respectively. During the Samhan period, the three confederacies of Mahan, Jinhan, and Byeonhan dominated the southern portion of the Korean peninsula. ...
Mahan was a loose confederacy of chiefdoms that existed from around the 1st century BC to the 3rd century CE in the southern Korean peninsula in the Chungcheong Province. ...
Baekje (or Paekche) and later Nambuyeo (18 BCE â 660 CE) was a kingdom in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula. ...
In the Goryeo period, the following cities were renamed: Hwangsan to Yeonsan; Deogeun to the same name but different meaning; Seoksanhyeon to Soeksoenghyeon. Sijin-hyeon merged into Deogeun gun in the 6th year of the King Taejo in Joseon Period. And, Deogeun-gun was renamed as Eunjin-hyeon in the first year of the King Sejong. In the 13th year of the King Teajong, Yeonsan-gun was changed to Yeonsan-hyeon. Nisan-hyeon was renamed Niseong-hyeon in the King Youngjo Peroid. And, Seokseong-hyeon was renamed Noseong-hyeon in the King Jeongjo Period. In 1912, four hyeons were changed to four guns. The Koryo(or Goryeo) Dynasty, established in 918, united the Later Three Kingdoms in 935 and ruled Korea until replaced by the Joseon dynasty in 1392. ...
The modern entity of Nonsan was established by combining four small towns(-gun), Yeonsan, Eunjin, Noseong, Seoksung, in 1914. Eunjin is a division of Nonsan, South Korea. ...
Do-ol in a talk at Konyang University in 2005 called Nonsan the font of Korean Confucianism. Do-ol (ëì¬) is the pen name of the contemporary South Korean philosopher Kim Yong-ok (sometimes given as Doal Kim Yong-ok or Tool Kim Yong-ok), born 1948. ...
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Administrative divisions Nonsan City has jurisdiction over 2 eups, 11 myeons, and 2 dongs.
Transportation Nonsan is served by the national railroad system and city, regional and national bus lines. An expressway connects the city to Daejeon and other cities. All city streets are paved, many of them with bike paths and most with sidewalks along side them. There is no airport, and the small river running through the city proper is not used for commerce, but downstream it joins a river, and an outlying subdivision of the city serves as a significant fishing port. This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ...
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Daejeon Metropolitan City is a metropolitan city in the centre of South Korea, and the capital of South Chungcheong Province. ...
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Economics and industry Nonsan is an agrarian city, with rice far and away the most important crop. Other important crops include strawberries, ginseng, and Korean pear. According to The Chosun Ilbo[2](in Japanese),the farmers are growing new varieties of strawberry produced in Japan without the producer's permission. Sesil [pronounced "say -shill"] company is the world's third leading producer of insects for natural pest control. Species Oryza glaberrima Oryza sativa Rice is two species of grass (Oryza sativa and Oryza glaberrima) native to tropical and subtropical southern & southeastern Asia and in Africa. ...
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Species Subgenus Panax Section Panax Series Notoginseng Panax notoginseng Series Panax Panax bipinnatifidus Panax ginseng Panax japonicus Panax quinquefolius Panax vietnamensis Panax wangianus Panax zingiberensis Section Pseudoginseng Panax pseudoginseng Panax stipuleanatus Subgenus Trifolius Panax trifolius Panax is a genus of 11 species of slow-growing perennial plants with fleshy roots...
Binomial name Pyrus bretschneideri Rehd. ...
The greater Nonsan area includes the national amry training center.
Education Konyang University, founded 1991, has its main campus in Nonsan. it has a university hospital in Daejeon. Konyang University, in Nonsan, South Korea, was founded in 1991. ...
Geumgang University, a recently founded Buddhist university, is in rural Nonsan, near Gyeryong Mountain. Geumgang University is a South Korean Buddhist university located in the countryside, under the shadow of Gyeryong Mountain, near Wonsan and between Nonsan and Daejeon, Republic of Korea. ...
Tourism Local attractions include the Eunjin Mireuk, a Buddhist sculpture of the Goryeo period, as well as the Baekje Military Museum. The Koryo(or Goryeo) Dynasty, established in 918, united the Later Three Kingdoms in 935 and ruled Korea until replaced by the Joseon dynasty in 1392. ...
Notable Nonsan people - South Korean Minister of Finance and Economy Lee Kyu-sung
See also This is a list of Wikipedia articles on Korea-related people, places, things, and concepts. ...
Map of South Korea The largest cities in South Korea have self-governing status equivalent to that of provinces. ...
Map of South Korea South Korea is located in Eastern Asia, on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula jutting out from the far east of the Asian land mass. ...
External links - Official government website
- WikiCity's Nonsan site: a guide to living in and visiting the city
- Galbijim wiki article on Nonsan
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