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Dae In-seon

Last king of Balhae, who surrendered to the Khitan in 926

With Balhae weakened by quarrels among its nobles, Yelü Abaoji, who had united the Khitan, invaded at the end of 925 and took Buyeo Prefecture. When the capital, Holhan Fortress at Sanggyeong, was besieged in the first month of 926, the king could not hold out and surrendered. The Khitan set up the Dongdan kingdom on Balhae’s land. Balhae refugees fought to restore their state, and in 934 Crown Prince Dae Gwang-hyeon led tens of thousands of people to Goryeo.

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    AD 926Fall of Balhaemonarch

    The Khitan ruler Yelü Abaoji invaded Balhae and besieged its capital Hol-han-seong (Sanggyeong); the last king, Dae In-seon, surrendered.

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  • Yelü AbaojiAD 872 – AD 926

    Founder of the Khitan Liao state, who destroyed Balhae in 926 and died on the way home

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  • Sui, Tang and the East Asian WorldAD 317 – AD 979

    From the divided Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Gupta age through the Sui and Tang empires to the founding of the Song — the age when an East Asian world sharing law codes, Buddhism, Confucianism and Chinese characters took shape, and Korea and Japan built their states on its model