PersonAD 475

King Gaero

Twenty-first king of Baekje, captured and killed when Hanseong fell to Goguryeo

He is said to have exhausted the kingdom building great palaces and walls, lured on by the monk Dorim whom King Jangsu had sent. In 472 he sent a letter to Northern Wei asking it to attack Goguryeo, but was refused. In 475 a Goguryeo army took Hanseong in seven days, and the king was taken below Acha Fortress and killed. Munju, who had gone to Silla for help, returned, took the throne and moved the capital to Ungjin.

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AD 475Fall of Hanseong and Move to Ungjinmonarch
King Jangsu took the Baekje capital Hanseong with 30,000 troops and killed King Gaero; Baekje moved its capital to Ungjin (Gongju).

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King JangsuAD 394 – AD 491
Twentieth king of Goguryeo, who moved the capital to Pyongyang and took the Han River basin

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Seoul18 BC – 1988
From Hanseong Baekje to the June Democratic Struggle — the Han River land every kingdom fought for, and Joseon’s capital for five centuries
GongjuAD 475 – 1894
From Ungjin, Baekje’s second capital, to Ugeumchi — the town on the Geum River that became the heart of Chungcheong
ChungjuAD 450 – 1895
From the Goguryeo stele to Tangeumdae — Jungwon, the middle of the Namhan River route that the Three Kingdoms fought over