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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Rulers of Korea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Baekje was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea in the 1st millennium CE (along with Goguryeo and Silla), and fell to Silla in 660.
The first king had the temple name Taejo, which means "great progenitor", and was applied to the first kings of both Goryeo and Joseon, as they were also the founders of the Wang and Yi Dynasties respectively.
Two kings – Yeonsangun and Gwanghaegun – were so disgraced in the eyes of later official historians that they were deprived of their temple names after their reigns ended.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Rulers_of_Korea   (1655 words)

  
 Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Tibet, & Mongolia
Kings and Emperors of Annam and Vietnam, 257 BC-1955
Although the kings were not deposed by the Thais, the whole Laotian state came under Thai suzerainty, until passing to French influence.
The last King of the period is supposed to have turned against Buddhism, and the kingdom fragmented after him.
www.friesian.com /perigoku.htm   (7990 words)

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