Wanju County ( Korean : 완주군 ; RR : Wanju-gun ) is a county in North Jeolla province, South Korea . It almost entirely surrounds the city of Jeonju .
46-548: In the Three Han period it was part of the Mahan confederacy , and in 555 ( Wideok 2) Jeonju week was installed but in 565 Jeonju week was abolished. After the Baekje kingdom collapsed in 660 ( Uija 20), the area was conquered by the kingdom of Silla and was incorporated into it in 685 (Sinmunwang 5). The city of Jeonju became one of nine chu , the provincial capitals of the kingdom. It
92-669: A common name to refer to all of Korea. In his Ten Mandates to his descendants, Wang Geon declared that he had unified the Three Han (Samhan), referring to the Three Kingdoms of Korea. Samhan continued to be a common name for Korea during the Joseon period and was widely referenced in the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty . In China, the Three Kingdoms of Korea were collectively called Samhan since
138-446: A flat rock. This practice is thought to have lasted up to the Gaya confederacy . The language of Jinhan is thought to be the predecessor of the language of Silla , which in turn was the supposed ancestor of the modern Korean language . However, due to multiple evidence stating that Silla, Baekje and Goguryeo spoke similar languages without a need of a translator, it can be deduced that
184-592: A provincial art museum that opened in October 2004, is located in Imsil-eup. The Wild Food Festival ( 와일드푸드축제 ) is a festival which is focused around reconnecting with nature and eating local food. The festival happens every September or October in the Gosan Recreational Forest. Since Samnye strawberries are renowned nationwide for their high quality, the festival is crowded with people who come to sample them at
230-459: A ruling elite, whose power was a mix of politics and shamanism . Although each state appears to have had its own ruler, there is no evidence of systematic succession . The name of the poorly understood Jin state continued to be used in the name of the Jinhan confederacy and in the name "Byeonjin," an alternate term for Byeonhan. In addition, for some time the leader of Mahan continued to call himself
276-704: Is a Sino-Korean word meaning "three" and Han is a Korean word meaning "great (one), grand, large, much, many". Han was transliterated into Chinese characters 韓 , 漢 , 幹 , or 刊 , but is believed by foreign linguists to be unrelated to the Han in Han Chinese and the Chinese kingdoms and dynasties also called Han (漢) and Han (韓). The word Han is still found in many Korean words such as Hangawi (한가위) — archaic native Korean for Chuseok (秋夕, 추석), Hangaram (한가람) — archaic native Korean for Hangang (漢江, 한강), Hanbat (한밭) —
322-650: Is also quite likely that their boundaries changed over time. Samguk Sagi indicates that Mahan was located in the northern region later occupied by Goguryeo , Jinhan in the region later occupied by Silla , and Byeonhan in the southwestern region later occupied by Baekje . However, the earlier Chinese Records of the Three Kingdoms places Mahan in the southwest, Jinhan in the southeast, and Byeonhan between them. Villages were usually constructed deep in high mountain valleys, where they were relatively secure from attack. Mountain fortresses were also often constructed as places of refuge during war. The minor states which made up
368-556: Is generally accepted as including Sillan , and may also have included the language(s) spoken in Baekje . A number of researchers have suggested that Baekje may have been bilingual, with the ruling class speaking a Puyŏ language and the commoners speaking a Han language. Linguistic evidence suggests that Japonic languages (see Peninsular Japonic ) were spoken in large parts of the southern Korean Peninsula , but its speakers were eventually assimilated by Koreanic-speaking peoples and
414-484: Is not clear, although the contemporary Chinese chronicle San Guo Zhi alleges that Jinhan was identical with Jin (while another record describes Jin as the predecessor of the Samhan as a whole). Jinhan and Byeonhan shared essentially the same culture, with varying religious customs, and apparently were not separated by a clear boundary. Many of the archeological evidence found in the area lack distinguishable differences with
460-629: The Byeonhan , Jinhan , and Mahan confederacies that emerged in the first century BC during the Proto–Three Kingdoms of Korea , or Samhan, period. Located in the central and southern regions of the Korean Peninsula , the Samhan confederacies eventually merged and developed into the Baekje, Gaya, and Silla kingdoms. The name "Samhan" also refers to the Three Kingdoms of Korea . Sam ( 三 )
506-626: The Hata clan who were wrongfully labeled as descendants of the Qin Dynasty simply for being associated with Silla. Book of Wei - Volume 30 's some part are record left by Wei envoy who visited Okjeo and Jinhan after the victory of the Goguryeo–Wei War and the Battle of Giryeong at the late 3rd century. Thus, Jinhan's 12 countries are records of quasi-independent countries that have weakened since
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#1732884941139552-498: The Qin dynasty at the end of the 3rd century BCE and carried over the name "Qin/秦". However, due to the dates overlapping with Jin state (4th~2nd century BCE) and no Korean historical documents backing this claim, it is mostly regarded as a false rumor as the Samhan kingdoms (including Jinhan) specifically claimed successorship over Jin (辰國) and not the Qin Dynasty (秦朝) (it is also noted that
598-553: The 3rd century, when the Yamatai federation of Kyūshū gained monopolistic control over Japanese trade with Byeonhan. Jinhan confederacy Jinhan ( Korean : 진한 ; Korean pronunciation: [tɕin.ɦan] ) was a loose confederacy of chiefdoms that existed from around the 1st century BC to the 4th century AD in the southern Korean Peninsula , to the east of the Nakdong River valley, Gyeongsang Province. Jinhan
644-592: The 4th century, Mahan was fully absorbed into the Baekje kingdom, Jinhan into the Silla kingdom, and Byeonhan into the Gaya confederacy , which was later annexed by Silla. Beginning in the 7th century, the name "Samhan" became synonymous with the Three Kingdoms of Korea. The "Han" in the names of the Korean Empire , Daehan Jeguk , and the Republic of Korea (South Korea), Daehan Minguk or Hanguk , are named in reference to
690-460: The Chinese commanderies in 108 BC. The Samhan languages ( Korean : 삼한어; 三韓語) were a branch of the ancient Koreanic languages , referring to the non-Buyeo Koreanic languages, once spoken in the southern Korean Peninsula , which were closely related to the Buyeo languages . The Samhan languages were spoken in the Mahan , Byeonhan and Jinhan . The extent of Han languages is unclear. It
736-618: The East". As part of the Samhan, Mahan meant "Big Nation of the South" and Byeonhan meant "Big Nation of Shimmer". Jinhan, like the other Samhan confederacies, arose out of the confusion and migration following the fall of Wiman Joseon in 108 BC. A claim found in the Chinese annals, History of the Northern Dynasties state that refugees from the Lelang area found Jinhan after political turmoil of
782-670: The King of Jin, asserting nominal overlordship over all of the Samhan confederations. Mahan was the largest and earliest developed of the three confederacies. It consisted of 54 minor statelets, one of which conquered or absorbed the others and became the center of the Baekje Kingdom. Mahan is usually considered to have been located in the southwest of the Korean peninsula, covering Jeolla , Chungcheong , and portions of Gyeonggi . Jinhan consisted of 12 statelets, one of which conquered or absorbed
828-416: The Korean peninsula. These were exchanged for local iron or raw silk . After the 2nd century CE, as Chinese influence waned, iron ingots came into use as currency for the trade based around Jinhan and Byeonhan. Trade relations also existed with the emergent states of Japan at this time, most commonly involving the exchange of ornamental Japanese bronzeware for Korean iron. These trade relations shifted in
874-508: The Tang dynasty, including those belonging to Baekje, Goguryeo, and Silla refugees and migrants, called the Three Kingdoms of Korea "Samhan", especially Goguryeo. For example, the epitaph of Go Hyeon ( 고현 ; 高玄 ), a Tang dynasty general of Goguryeo origin who died in 690, calls him a "Liaodong Samhan man" ( 요동 삼한인 ; 遼東 三韓人 ). The History of Liao equates Byeonhan to Silla, Jinhan to Buyeo, and Mahan to Goguryeo. In 1897, Gojong changed
920-468: The Three Kingdoms of Korea, not the ancient confederacies in the southern Korean Peninsula. "Samhan" became a name for the Three Kingdoms of Korea beginning in the 7th century. According to the Samguk Sagi and Samguk Yusa , Silla implemented a national policy, "Samhan Unification" ( 삼한일통 ; 三韓一統 ), to integrate Baekje and Goguryeo refugees. In 1982, a memorial stone dating back to 686
966-493: The beginning of the 7th century. The use of the name Samhan to indicate the Three Kingdoms of Korea was widespread in the Tang dynasty . Goguryeo was alternately called Mahan by the Tang dynasty, as evidenced by a Tang document that called Goguryeo generals "Mahan leaders" ( 마한추장 ; 馬韓酋長 ) in 645. In 651, Emperor Gaozong of Tang sent a message to the king of Baekje referring to the Three Kingdoms of Korea as Samhan. Epitaphs of
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#17328849411391012-401: The claim found in the annals allude to a mention made by an elderly passerby of no social importance). The claim is further discredited as Korea's Samguk Sagi states that the first king of Silla (the kingdom that succeeded Jinhan) built the kingdom alongside the indigenous Koreans from Gojoseon . Such misconception had ultimately affected immigrants who hailed from Silla to Japan known as
1058-457: The defeat of Silla during the Cheomhae Isageum era. Before the 3rd century, it was presumed that there was no distinction between the Jinhan (辰韓) and Byeonhan (弁韓 or 弁辰). It is said that the people of Jinhan and Byeonhan intermingled and immigrated quite frequently (雜居), ultimately making it difficult to differentiate the two states culturally. Its relation to the earlier state of Jin
1104-523: The end of every March at the Youth Training Center in Samnye-eup. Promotional events including experiencing the strawberry harvest, making strawberry cake and strawberry injeolmi , and planting strawberries in flowerpots are held, and environmentally-friendly strawberries can be tasted and bought. Wanju is twinned with: Three Han Samhan , or Three Han , is the collective name of
1150-549: The evidence found in the neighboring kingdoms, suggesting that the cultures were mostly similar across the southern part of the peninsula. Little is known about the daily lives of the Jinhan people. The religion appears to have been shamanistic which played an important role in politics as well. Agriculture was heavily dominated by rice , but also included substantial rearing of livestock including horses , cattle , and chickens . Similar to Byeonhan, infants born in Jinhan were made flat headed by pushing their skulls onto
1196-460: The federations are usually considered to have covered about as much land as a modern-day myeon , or township. Based on historical and archeological records, river and sea routes appear to have been the primary means of long-distance transportation and trade (Yi, 2001, p. 246). It is thus not surprising that Jinhan and Byeonhan, with their coastal and river locations, became particularly prominent in international trade during this time. One of
1242-736: The heads of the confederacies as such. In the beginning, the relationship was a political trading system in which "tribute" was exchanged for titles or prestige gifts. Official seals identified each tribal leader's authority to trade with the commandery. However, after the fall of the Kingdom of Wei in the 3rd century, San guo zhi reports that the Lelang commandery handed out official seals freely to local commoners, no longer symbolizing political authority (Yi, 2001, p. 245). The Chinese commanderies also supplied luxury goods and consumed local products. Later Han dynasty coins and beads are found throughout
1288-429: The languages replaced/supplanted. Evidence also suggests that Peninsular Japonic and Koreanic languages co-existed in the southern Korean Peninsula for an extended period of time and influenced each other. As has been suggested for the later Korean kingdom of Baekje , it is possible that the Samhan states were bilingual prior to the complete replacement of Peninsular Japonic by Koreanic languages. The Samhan saw
1334-586: The languages spoken in Jinhan bore close resemblance to languages spoken in countries such as Byeonhan and Mahan at the time. According to the San Guo Zhi , Jinhan consisted of 12 statelets of 600 to 5000 families each divided from 6 statelets: According to Samguk Sagi , the Silla Kingdom (around present-day Gyeongju ), was founded by Bak Hyeokgeose in 57 BC, who united the six clans of Jinhan under his rule. The records are sparse and conflicting regarding
1380-399: The modern-day Jeolla area emerged as a center of rice production (Kim, 1974). Until the rise of Goguryeo , the external relations of Samhan were largely limited to the Chinese commanderies located in the former territory of Gojoseon . The longest standing of these, the Lelang commandery , appear to have maintained separate diplomatic relations with each individual state rather than with
1426-462: The most prominent leader of the Han ( Korean : 한; 韓) Immigration was King Jun of Gojoseon from the northern Korea, having lost the throne to Wiman , fled to the state of Jin in southern Korea around 194 - 180 BC. He and his followers established Mahan which was one of the Samhan ("Three Hans"), along with Byeonhan and Jinhan . Further Han(韓) migration followed the fall of Gojoseon and establishment of
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1472-513: The name of Joseon to the Korean Empire , Daehan Jeguk , in reference to the Three Kingdoms of Korea. In 1919, the provisional government in exile during the Japanese occupation declared the name of Korea as the Republic of Korea, Daehan Minguk , also in reference to the Three Kingdoms of Korea. The Samhan are generally considered loose confederations of walled-town states. Each appears to have had
1518-457: The original place name in native Korean for Daejeon (大田, 대전), hanabi (하나비) — a Joseon -era (Late Middle Korean) word for "grandfather; elderly man" (most often 할아버지 harabeoji in present-day Korean, although speakers of some dialects, especially in North Korea, may still use the form hanabi ). Ma means south, Byeon means shining and Jin means east. Many historians have suggested that
1564-507: The others and became the center of the Silla Kingdom. It is usually considered to have been located to the east of the Nakdong River valley. Byeonhan consisted of 12 statelets, which later gave rise to the Gaya confederacy , subsequently annexed by Silla . It is usually considered to have been located in the south and west of the Nakdong River valley. The exact locations occupied by the different Samhan confederations are disputed. It
1610-520: The relationship of the names Jinhan, Saro, Seorabeol, and the later Silla kingdom. Most theories indicate that Jinhan was located in the area later occupied by the Silla kingdom: the Gyeongju Basin and adjacent Sea of Japan coast. It would have been neighbored by the Byeonhan confederacy on the southwest, and by the much larger Mahan confederacy on the west. On the north it would have been bounded by
1656-431: The systematic introduction of iron into the southern Korean peninsula. This was taken up with particular intensity by the Byeonhan states of the Nakdong River valley, which manufactured and exported iron armor and weapons throughout Northeast Asia. The introduction of iron technology also facilitated growth in agriculture, as iron tools made the clearing and cultivation of land much easier. It appears that at this time
1702-414: The time of the fall of Gojoseon in northern Korea in 108 BC. Kim Bu-sik 's Samguk Sagi , one of the two representative history books of Korea, mentions that people of Jin Han are migrants from Gojoseon, which suggests that early Han tribes who came to Southern Korean peninsula are originally Gojoseon people; this coincides with the state of Jin in southern Korea also disappearing from written records. By
1748-486: The word Han might have been pronounced as Gan or Kan . The Silla language had a usage of this word for king or ruler as found in the words 마립간 (麻立干; Maripgan) and 거서간 / 거슬한 (居西干 / 居瑟邯; Geoseogan / Geoseulhan ). Alexander Vovin suggests this word is related to the Mongolian Khan and Manchurian Han meaning ruler, and the ultimate origin is Xiongnu and Yeniseian . The Samhan are thought to have formed around
1794-436: Was changed to Annamdaedoho-bu and in 940 (Taejo of Goryeo 23) it was restored back to Jeonju. In 993, Jeonju was changed to Seunghwa and put Jeoldoanmusa, and in 995, it was named Sunui-gun that belong to Gangnamdo when dividing the nation into 10 do 12 ju. In 1005 ( Mokjong 8) Jeoldosa of Jeonju was dispatched, and in 1018 ( Hyeonjong 9) was promoted to Annamdaedoho-bu during the nationwide district system reform, but in 1022 it
1840-503: Was changed to Jeonju in 757 (Gyeongdeok 16). The Jeonju feeling was installed and was highly regarded as the center of the military. In 892 ( Jinseong of Silla 6), Kyŏn Hwŏn established the Later Baekje kingdom in Wanju, and the area remained part of that country for 45 years until it collapsed in 936 ( Taejo of Goryeo 19). In 936, the 19th year of the reign of King Taejo of Goryeo, Jeonju
1886-568: Was discovered in Cheongju with an inscription: "The Three Han were unified and the domain was expanded." During the Later Silla period, the concepts of Samhan as the ancient confederacies and the Three Kingdoms of Korea were merged. In a letter to an imperial tutor of the Tang dynasty, Ch'oe Ch'i-wŏn equated Byeonhan to Baekje, Jinhan to Silla, and Mahan to Goguryeo. By the Goryeo period, Samhan became
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1932-454: Was one of the Samhan (or "Three Hans"), along with Byeonhan and Mahan . Apparently descending from the Jin state of southern Korea, Jinhan was absorbed by the later Silla , one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea . "Jinhan (辰韓)" is believed to be a combination of Old Korean words. "Jin (진)" in native Korean meant "East" while "Han (한)" meant "big", giving the meaning of Jinhan, the "Big Nation of
1978-496: Was renamed Jeonju-bu and unchanged until the end of Joseon, but its territory was reduced compared to the Goryeo era. In 1914 Gosan-gun was merged with Jeonju-gun, and in 1935 Jeonju-eup was promoted to Jeonju-bu. Jeonju-gun was renamed Wanju-gun and covered 15 myeon . In 1956 Samnye-myeon was promoted to an eup , and in 1957 Chopo and part of Ujeon-myeon and Jochon Yongjin were added to Jeonju. In 1983, part of Sanggwan-myeon
2024-470: Was renamed back to Jeonju-mok. In 1355 ( Gongmin 4) although Jung Ji-Sang which was an Allyeong-sa of Jeolla Province was degraded to Bugo by the incident when he imprisoned Yasabulhwa who was a Wonuisasin, the year after he was raised back to Jeonjubu. The Joseon dynasty was founded in the county in 1392 (the 1st year of Taejo of Joseon ), and the county was promoted to Jeonjuyusu-bu due to its importance as Taejo's hometown. In 1403 (Taejo of Joseon 3) it
2070-745: Was transferred to Jeonju. Part of Chopo-myeon was transferred to Samnye-up and Yongjin-myeon, and part of Ujeon-myeon was transferred to Gui-myeon. In 1966 the Gyeongcheon branch office was built in Unju-myeon, and in 1973 Bongdong-myeon was promoted to an eup , Iksan-gun Onsuri Volcano Village was transferred to Samnye-eup, and Samnye-ri and part of Sanjeong-ri of Yongjin-eup were transferred to Jeonju Ua-dong. In 1983, Sanggwan-myeon Daeseong-ri, Saekjang-ri and part Sanjeong-ri of Yongjin-myeon were transferred to Jeonju, and part of Dodeok-ri of Baekgu-myeon in Gimje-gun
2116-403: Was transferred to Jochon-myeon. In 1985 Jochon-myeon was promoted to an eup , and transferred to Jeonju in 1987, and in 1989 the Gyeongcheon branch office of Unju-myeon was promoted to Gyeongcheon-myeon. In 1990, part of Iseo-myeon (Jung-ri and Sangnim-ri) was transferred to Jeonju. In 1994 part of Geumpyeong-ri of Yongji-myeon in Gimje-gun was transferred to Iseo-myeon. Jeonbuk Museum of Art,
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