Silla

History

During the Proto–Three Kingdoms period, central and southern Korea consisted of three confederacies called the Samhan. Silla began as "Saro-guk", a statelet within the 12-member confederacy known as Jinhan. Saro-guk consisted of six clans later known as the Six Clans of Jinhan () from Gojoseon. According to Korean records, Silla was founded by Bak Hyeokgeose of Silla in 57 BCE, around present-day Gyeongju. Hyeokgeose is said to have been hatched from an egg laid from a white horse, and when he turned 13, six clans submitted to him as king and established the kingdom of "Saro (pronounced [si.raʔ] at the time)" which later became the kingdom of Silla. However, this account was not attested during Silla times; Silla epigraphy instead mentions an obscure founding king named "Sŏnghan", while contemporary Chinese writings record that Silla originally consisted of Goguryeo refugees ruled by an unnamed king from Mahan. In various inscriptions on archaeological founding such as personal gravestones and monuments, it is recorded that Silla royals considered themselves having Xiongnu ancestry through the Xiongnu prince Kim Il-je, also known as Jin Midi in Chinese sources. and some researchers insist that the Silla king is descended from Xiongnu. Up until the liberation of Korea in 1945, Meiji era Japanese historians claimed that Susanoo had ruled over Silla and that the Koreans were the descendants of him, thus finding justification and legitimizing the Japanese occupation of Korea through the use of Nissen dōsoron. According to the Shinsen Shōjiroku, Inahi no Mikoto the brother of the mythological Emperor Jimmu was the ancestor to the kings of Silla. Another source referenced in Samguk sagi claims that a man from the Japanese Archipelago named Hogong helped build the kingdom…

Most-observed species

• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  9,764
• Eurasian Collared-Dove

  Streptopelia decaocto (Frivaldszky, 1838) · Aves
  8,361
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  8,314
• Little Egret/Western Reef-Heron

  Egretta garzetta (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  7,488
• Spotless Starling

  Sturnus unicolor Temminck, 1820 · Aves
  7,421
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  7,398
• Eurasian Magpie

  Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  7,373
• Eurasian Moorhen

  Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  7,287

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