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Baekje Historic Areas
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How it came to be
The Baekje Historic Areas are eight sites in Gongju, Buyeo and Iksan in central-western South Korea, covering the later period of the Baekje kingdom (18 BCE to 660 CE) from 475 to 660. Baekje had begun at Hanseong on the Han River, in present-day Seoul, but lost its capital to Goguryeo and moved in 475 to Ungjin, today's Gongju, where the Gongsanseong fortress was built.
In 538 King Seong moved the capital to Sabi, today's Buyeo, with a royal palace, fortresses, royal tombs and an outer city wall. Iksan served as a secondary capital, and there King Mu founded Mireuksa, the largest Buddhist temple of Baekje. In 660 Baekje was defeated by Silla, allied with Tang China. UNESCO values the sites as a crossroads of technological, Buddhist, cultural and artistic exchange between the ancient kingdoms of Korea, China and Japan.
The Tomb of King Muryeong among the Songsan-ri tombs at Gongju was found by accident in 1971 during drainage work on neighbouring tombs, untouched by robbers. Its stone epitaphs give the names of the king and queen and the dates of their deaths, matching the Samguk Sagi exactly. The Mireuksa site was excavated in 1980, and the eight sites were inscribed on the World Heritage List on 8 July 2015.
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