Jeungsanseong Fortress, Buyeo

Jeungsanseong is a Baekje-period mountain fortress built of white stone; because the finished wall resembled a siru (a traditional steaming pot) with a band wrapped around it, the fortress is also known as Sirumesanseong. It is thought to have been built to protect the capital after King Seong moved the Baekje capital to Sabi in the sixteenth year of his reign (538). The fortress is about 600 m in circumference and 2–3 m high. Part of it has collapsed, but the southern section survives relatively well, and traces of gates remain at the western, southern and northern sides in particular. The walls were built making use of the natural terrain. Many fragments of Baekje pottery and roof tiles remain inside the fortress, and there is the site of a well to the east. It is linked, in a mutually visible arrangement, with Ijungsanseong Fortress in Eunsan-myeon and Ongnyeobongsanseong Fortress to the west. According to a record that Silla defeated Baekje's Goseongseong Fortress in the first lunar month of the twelfth year of King Munmu (672), some scholars believe this fortress was once known by the name Goseongseong. It is an important mountain fortress, also thought to have served as a base for the Baekje restoration movement.

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Where it is

Region

Buyeo, Chungnam

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Historic Site · 사적