Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Gungnae.
The capital of Koguryŏ was initially at Cholbon 卒本 but shifted to Kungnae 國內 in A.D. 3 (in the twenty-second year of Koguryŏ's king Yuri).
2008, Kang Hyun Sook, “New Perspectives of Koguryŏ Archaeological Data”, in Early Korea, volume 1, Early Korea Project, Korea Institute, Harvard University, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 132 more examples
A further step in the Sinification of the state was the moving of the capital in 427 from Kungnae on the middle stretches of the Yalu River down to P’yŏngyang, the former headquarters of the Lo-lang commandery.
1960, Edwin O. Reischauer, John K. Fairbank, “Traditional Korea: A Variant of the Chinese Cultural Pattern”, in A History of East Asian Civilization, volume 1, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 407In 427, Koguryo moved its capital from Kungnae to P'yongyang, the former capital of Lo-lang and the modern capital of North Korea. Wall paintings in the tombs of the Koguryo nobility near Kungnae and P'yongyang are among the finest known surviving examples of 4th–5th-century Chinese wall painting.
1987, Robert J. Moes, “Introduction: The Historical Context of Korean Art”, in Korean Art: From the Brooklyn Museum Collection, New York: Universe Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6, column 1
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