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Created page with "*''Korean'': 高句麗 ''(Goguryeo, Kokoryŏ)'' Koguryo, also known as Kokoryŏ, Goguryeo, and by a number of other spellings, was one of the Three Kingdoms (Korea) of t..."
*''Korean'': 高句麗 ''(Goguryeo, Kokoryŏ)''

Koguryo, also known as Kokoryŏ, Goguryeo, and by a number of other spellings, was one of the [[Three Kingdoms (Korea)|Three Kingdoms]] of the Korean peninsula, lasting from roughly 37 BCE to [[668]] CE.

Koguryo figures in both Korean and Japanese origin myths, with the ''[[Chikuzen fudoki]]'' alleging that Hiboko, the tutelary deity of a prominent northern Kyushu family, first came to earth within the territory of Koguryo. Ancient Chinese sources suggest that Koguryo was first founded by a figure called in Korean either Chumong (朱蒙) or Tongmyŏng (東明), who hatched from an egg.

Koguryo was repeated attacked by the Chinese [[Sui Dynasty]], and later by an alliance between [[Tang Dynasty]] China and the Korean kingdom of [[Silla]], but was successful in fending off these attacks for roughly a century, before finally falling in 668.

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==References==
*Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 198.

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