Buyeo

Japanese: 扶余 - ふよ

A county in the southwest of Chungcheongnam-do, Korea, facing the Baekmagang River (Geum River) and at the center of the Naepo Plain in the river basin. The area is a producer of Korean ginseng. It is also rich in agricultural products. In the past, along with Ganggyeong, it was a bustling rice distribution center along the Geum River. In the center and north of the county, there are hilly areas with remnant hills, and rare minerals such as gold are found buried there. The Limcheon Gold Mine has a long history of development. The center of the county is Buyeo-eup, Sageong, the capital of Baekje, located on the left bank of the Geum River. It was moved from Ungjin in 538 and was the royal capital for 120 years until the fall of Baekje in 660. Relics excavated from many ruins are kept at the National Buyeo Museum. It is also home to the cliff of Mount Buso overlooking the Geum River, where 3,000 court ladies jumped to their deaths at the fall of the Baekje dynasty, and is a tourist destination as a historical town. Many of the remains from the late Baekje period that remain in Buyeo-eup are remarkable. Busosanseong Fortress stands on an independent hill facing the east bank of the Geum River, and remains of earthworks and military storehouses remain. At the southern foot of Busosanseong Fortress are the remains of a royal palace and a garden called Gungnamji Pond. There are also many temple sites that show the prosperity of Buddhism in the late Baekje period. The layout of the temple buildings is similar to that of Japan's Shitennoji Temple, as seen in the Jeongrimsa Temple site and the abandoned Gunsuri temple site. To the east of the center of Buyeo-eup are the Neungsan-ri burial mounds, which are believed to be the burial grounds of Baekje royalty at that time. The Pyeong Baekje Pagoda, a national treasure at the Jeongrimsa Temple site, was named after the words "Great Tang Pyeong Baekje Country" that were inscribed on the body of the pagoda when the allied forces of Tang and Silla destroyed Baekje, but it is now called the "Jeongrimsa Five-story Pagoda." Buyeo County has a population of 73,000 (2005).
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Japanese:

韓国，忠清南道南西部の郡，白馬江（錦江）に臨み，流域の内浦平野の中心。付近は高麗ニンジンの産地。また農産物も豊富である。かつては江景などとともに錦江沿いの米の集散地としてにぎわった。郡の中央および北部には残丘状の丘陵地がみられ，金鉱など希少鉱物の埋蔵がみられる。林川金鉱山は古くから開発された歴史をもつ。郡の中心は錦江の左岸に位置する扶余邑，百済(くだら)の都泗耕であり，538年熊津より遷都，以来660年の百済滅亡まで120年間王都であった。多くの遺跡から発掘された遺物は，国立扶余博物館に収められている。百済王朝滅亡時，3000人の官女が投身したという，錦江に臨む扶蘇山の絶壁落花岩などもあり，歴史の町として観光地となっている。扶余邑内に遺存する百済後期の遺跡群には，目をみはるものが多い。錦江東岸に面した独立丘陵に扶蘇山城があり，土塁や軍倉跡なども残る。扶蘇山城の南麓には，王宮跡，宮南池という庭園跡がある。また百済後期の仏教の隆盛を示す，寺院址も多数。伽藍配置は，定林寺址や軍守里廃寺址のように，日本の四天王寺式に共通するものも多い。扶余邑の中心部の東方に，陵山里古墳群があり，そのころの百済王族の墳墓地とされる。定林寺址の国宝平百済塔は，唐・新羅連合軍が百済を滅ぼした際に，塔身に「大唐平百済国」の文字が刻まれ，その名があるが，現在は「定林寺五重塔」と呼ばれている。扶余郡の人口は７万3000人（2005）。
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