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Birth name
Hangul 이성계,
later 이단
Hanja 李成桂,
later 李旦
Revised Romanization I
Seonggye,
later I Dan McCune–Reischauer I Sŏnggye,
later I Tan
Courtesy name Hangul...
- The
Joseon considered Jeonju their ancestral home (an
ancestor of Yi
Seonggye of
Joseon may have fled
Jeonju after the 1182
peasant revolt).
During the...
- Hamhung, and Kyo-hwa-so No. 22 is in
Yonggwang County north of Hamhung. Yi
Seonggye (이성계; 1335–1408), the
founder of the Chosŏn dynasty, Korea's last royal...
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Buddhist monks had been
forced to keep a low
profile since General Yi
Seonggye had been
forced to
eject Buddhism from its
state of
total permeation of...
- with China. In 1392,
General Yi
Seonggye led a
successful coup to take
political power in
Korea from U of Goryeo.
Seonggye's followers forced him to take...
- Haeng-ni (Korean: 이행리; Hanja: 李行里; 1236–?) was the great-grandfather of Yi
Seonggye, the
founder of the
Joseon Dynasty.
After his death, he was
given the temple...
- East Asia for
almost 700 years. In 1388, an
influential general named Yi
Seonggye (1335–1408)
carried out a coup d'état and
established himself as the first...
- name
written vertically. When the
first king of the
Joseon dynasty, Yi
Seonggye (who
reigned from 1335 to 1408),
constructed the
capital city, he believed...
-
family member as the
second son of Yi
Jachun and half
elder brother to Yi
Seonggye, its founder. Cheon-gye was
raised by his uncle, Yi Ja-heung in his early...
-
persuading the king to take
action against the Ming, as he
ordered General Yi
Seonggye to
conquer Yodong in Ming territory. Goryeo's
senior military commander...
