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( Silla)
Silla (57 BCE – 935 CE), was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. It began as a chiefdom in the Samhan confederacies. Allied with China, Silla eventually conquered the other two kingdoms, Baekje in 660 and Goguryeo in 668. Thereafter, it is sometimes called Unified Silla or Later Silla, occupying most of the Korean Peninsula, while the northern part re-emerged as Balhae, which was a successor-state of Goguryeo. After nearly a millennium, Silla fragmented into the brief Later Three Kingdoms, and submitted to its successor dynasty Goryeo in 935.[1] From its founding until its growth into a full-fledged kingdom, Silla was recorded with various Hanja (Chinese characters) phonetically approximating its native Korean name ?? (??, saro), ?? (??, sara), ??(?) (??(?), seona(beol)), ??(?) (??(?), seoya(beol)), ??(?) (??(?), seora(beol)), ?? (??, seobeol). In 503, King Jijeung standardized on the characters ??(??), which in Modern Korean are read together as Silla; however, Korean /s/ is often palatalized before /i/, so that the actual phonetic result tends to sound more like "Shilla" to the ear of an English speaker. An etymological hypothesis (there are various other speculations) suggests that, the native name “Seora-beol” might have been the origin of the native word “seo'ul” meaning "capital city" and also the name of the present capital of South Korea, a city which was previously known as Hanseong or Hanyang. The name of the Silla capital, might have been changed into, in the Late Middle Korean form Syeobeul (??) meaning "royal capital city," which soon might have altered into Syeo'ul (??), and finally resulted in Seo'ul (??) in the Modern Korean language. The name of either Silla or its capital Seora-beol was also widely used throughout Northeast Asia as the ethnonym for the people of Silla, appearing as "Shiragi" (??????) or "Shiragi-bito" (???, literally "Silla-people") in the language of the Yamato Japanese and as "Sogol" or "Solho" in the language of the medieval Jurchens and their later descendants, the Manchus respectively.
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Abscess - Natural Remedies for abscess by Peter Hutch
An abscess is a tender, easily pressed mass generally surrounded by a colored area from pink to deep red. The middle of an abscess is full of pus and debris. Painful and warm to touch, abscesses can show up any place on your body. The most common sit...
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