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Silla ( Korean pronunciation: [ɕiɭ.ɭa]; Old Korean: 徐羅伐, Yale: Syerapel, [ 8] RR: Seorabeol; IPA: Korean pronunciation: [sʌɾabʌɭ] ), was a Korean kingdom that existed between 57 BCE [ 9] – 935 CE and was located on the southern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula. Silla, along with Baekje and Goguryeo, formed the Three ...
The Three Kingdoms of Korea or Samhan (Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla) competed for hegemony over the Korean Peninsula during the ancient period of Korean history.During the Three Kingdoms period (Korean: 삼국시대), [a] many states and statelets consolidated until, after Buyeo was annexed in 494 and Gaya was annexed in 562, only three remained on the Korean Peninsula: Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla.
Silla attacked Tang forces in Baekje and northern Korea in 671. Tang then invaded Silla in 674 but Silla drove the Tang forces out of the peninsula by 676 to achieve unification of most of the Korean peninsula. [121] Unified Silla was a golden age of art and culture.
Old Korean is generally defined as the ancient Koreanic language of the Silla state (BCE 57–CE 936), [3] especially in its Unified period (668–936). [4] [5] Proto-Koreanic, the hypothetical ancestor of the Koreanic languages understood largely through the internal reconstruction of later forms of Korean, [6] is to be distinguished from the actually historically attested language of Old Korean.
Queen Seondeok of Silla (Korean: 선덕여왕 Korean pronunciation: [sʌn.dʌk jʌ.waŋ]; c. 580 or 610 – 20 February [O.S. 17 February] 647; 8th day of the 1st lunar month of the 14th year of Inpyeong [仁平14年正月8日, 인평 14년 정월 8일]) reigned as Queen Regnant of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 632 to 647. [3]
The bone-rank system ( Korean : 골품제도) was the system of aristocratic rank used in the ancient Korean kingdom of Silla. It was used to segregate society, and particularly the layers of the aristocracy, on the basis of their hereditary proximity to the throne and the level of authority they were permitted to wield.
The Later Three Kingdoms period ( Korean : 후삼국시대; 889–936 AD [citation needed]) of ancient Korea saw a partial revival of the old three kingdoms which had dominated the peninsula from the 1st century BC to the 7th century. After the Unified Silla kingdom had ruled Korea alone from 668, it slowly began to decline and the power vacuum ...
Unified Silla, or Late Silla ( Korean : 통일신라; Hanja : 統一新羅; RR : Tongilsilla, Korean pronunciation: [tʰoːŋ.iɭ.ɕiɭ.ɭa] ), is the name often applied to the Korean kingdom of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, after 668 CE. In the 7th century, a Silla–Tang alliance conquered Baekje in the Baekje–Tang War.