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Jeolla

Jeolla (Jeolla-do in Korean, formerly spelled Cholla or Cholla) was one of the eight provinces

Eight Provinces (Korea)

During most of the Joseon Dynasty, Korea was divided into eight Provinces of Korea . The eight provinces' boundaries remained unchanged for almost five centuries from 1413 to 1895, and formed a geographic paradigm that is still reflected today in the Korean Peninsula's administrative divisions, dialects, and regional distinctions....
of Korea

Korea

Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
during the Joseon Dynasty

Joseon Dynasty

Joseon , was a sovereign state founded by Taejo Taejo of Joseon, and lasted for approximately five centuries. It was founded in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Goryeo Kingdom at what is today the city of Kaesong....
. Jeolla was located in the southwest of Korea. The provincial capital was Jeonju

Jeonju

Jeonju is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in South Korea, and the capital of Jeollabuk-do, or North Jeolla Province. It is an important tourist center famous for Korean food, historic buildings, sports activities and innovative festivals....
.

ng the Goryeo

Goryeo

The Goryeo Dynasty was a sovereign state established in 918 by Taejo of Goryeo. It united the Later Three Kingdoms in 936 and ruled most of the Korean peninsula until it was removed by the Joseon dynasty in 1392....
dynasty, the Provinces of Gangnam and Haeyang were merged to form Jeollaju Province (Jeollaju-do; ????; ????). In the early 15th century (the early Joseon Dynasty), the province's name was shortened to Jeolla.

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Jeolla (Jeolla-do in Korean, formerly spelled Cholla or Cholla) was one of the eight provinces

Eight Provinces (Korea)

Korea

Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
during the Joseon Dynasty

Joseon Dynasty

Jeonju

History

During the Goryeo

Goryeo

Jeonju

Naju

Naju is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in South Jeolla Province, South Korea.The capital of South Jeolla was located at Naju until it was moved to Gwangju during early 20th century....
(??; ??). (The "n" in "Naju" is originally an "r", so the "n" in "Jeonju" and the "r" in "Naju" are assimilated to "l"s according to a phonetic rule in Korean

Korean language

Korean is the official language of North Korea and South Korea. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China....
.)

In 1895, the province was replaced by the Districts

Provinces of Korea

This article describes the historical evolution of Korea's provinces . For detailed information on current administrative divisions, please see Administrative divisions of North Korea and Administrative divisions of South Korea....
of Jeonju (Jeonju-bu; ???; ???) in the northwest, Naju (Naju-bu; ???; ???) in the southwest, Namwon

Namwon

Namwon is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in North Jeolla Province, South Korea. Namwon is about 45 minutes from the provincial capital of Jeonju, which is three hours away from Seoul....
(Namwon-bu; ???; ???) in the east, and Jeju

Jeju-do

Jeju-do is the only special autonomous province of South Korea, situated on and coterminous with the country's largest island. Jeju-do lies in the Korea Strait, southwest of Jeollanam-do Province, of which it was a part before it became a separate province in 1946....
(Jeju-bu; ???; ???) on Jeju Island.

In 1896, Jeonju and northern Namwon Districts were merged to form North Jeolla Province, and Naju, Jeju, and southern Namwon Districts were merged to form South Jeolla Province.

The Donghak Rebellion of 1894-95 began in Jeolla province, which was a peasant revolt fueled by the fervor of a coming local "messiah" (the Donghak Movement and protests over Seoul's high taxes on rice and Japanese invasion. It was this event which caused Korea to ask China for military assistance, after which the Japanese invaded Korea, presumably out of fear of Chinese ownership of the peninsula. Donghak Rebellion was suppressed by Japanese army and First Sino-Japanese war

First Sino-Japanese War

The First Sino-Japanese War was a war fought between Qing Dynasty China and Meiji period Imperial Japan over the control of Korea. The Sino-Japanese War would come to symbolize the degeneration and enfeeblement of the Qing Dynasty and demonstrate how successful modernization had been in Japan since the Meiji Restoration as compared with the...
occurred.

Geography

Jeolla Province was bounded on the north by Chungcheong

Chungcheong

Chungcheong was one of the Eight Provinces of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty. Chungcheong was located in the southwest of Korea. The provincial capital was located at Gongju, which had been the capital of the kingdom of Baekje from 475 to 538....
Province, on the east by Gyeongsang

Gyeongsang

Gyeongsang was one of the Eight Provinces of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty. Gyeongsang was located in the southeast of Korea. The provincial capital was Daegu....
Province, on the south by the East China Sea

East China Sea

The East China Sea is a marginal sea east of China. It is a part of the Pacific Ocean and covers an area of 1,249,000 km?. In China, the sea is called the East Sea....
, and on the west by the Yellow Sea

Yellow Sea

The Yellow Sea is the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea, which is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. It is located between mainland China and the Korean peninsula....
.

The region is bordered on the east by the Sobaek Mountains

Sobaek Mountains

The Sobaek Mountains are a mountain range cutting across the southern Korean peninsula. They split off from the Taebaek Mountains and trend southwest across the center of the peninsula....
and is drained by the Yeongsan, Seomjin and Mangyeong River. The largest city in the region is Gwangju

Gwangju

Gwangju Metropolitan City is the sixth largest city in South Korea. It is a designated Special cities of Korea under the direct control of the central government's Home Minister....
. Apart from Jeonju and Naju, other cities of note include Iksan

Iksan

Iksan is a Administrative divisions of South Korea and major railway junction in North Jeolla Province, South Korea.The city center and railway junction was formerly called "Iri" , but merged with Iksan County in 1995....
(formerly Iri

IRI

IRI may refer to:* The Islamic Republic of Iran* Internationalized Resource Identifier, a generalization of the Uniform Resource Locator , a World Wide Web resource allowing the use of Unicode...
), Gunsan

Gunsan

Gunsan is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in North Jeolla Province, South Korea. It is located on the south bank of the Geum River just upstream from its exit into the Yellow Sea....
, Mokpo

Mokpo

Mokpo is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in South Jeolla Province, South Korea, on the southwestern tip of the Korean Peninsula. Mokpo has frequent train service to Seoul and is the terminus for a number of ferry routes serving islands in the adjacent Yellow Sea ....
, Namwon, Suncheon

Suncheon, South Korea

Suncheon is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in Jeollanam-do, South Korea. Located in the province of Jeollanam-do,It is a scenic agricultural and industrial city of around 250,000 people near Suncheon Bay....
, and Yeosu

Yeosu

Yeosu is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in South Jeolla Province, South Korea. Old Yeosu City, which was founded in 1949, Yeocheon City, founded in 1986, and Yeocheon County were merged into a new city in 1998....
.

The regional name

Regions of Korea

Korea has traditionally been divided into a number of unofficial regions that reflect historical, geographical, and dialect boundaries within the Korean Peninsula....
for Jeolla was Honam

Honam

Honam is a region coinciding with the former Jeolla Province in what is now South Korea. Today, the term refers to North Jeolla and South Jeolla Provinces....
, which is still frequently used today.

Culture

Jeolla is famous for its traditional music, particularly the genre of musical theater which originated there called pansori

Pansori

Pansori is a genre of Music of Korea. It is a vocal and Percussion instrument music performed by one sorikkun and one pansori gosu . The term pansori is derived from pan, meaning "a place where many people gather," and sori, meaning "sound."...
, as well as for a related genre of instrumental music called sanjo

Sanjo (music)

Sanjo is a style of traditional Korean music, involving an instrumental solo accompanied by drumming on the janggu, an Hourglass drum....
.

Notable personalities

Yi Gwang (Hangul
Hangul

Hangul is the native alphabet of the Korean language, as distinguished from the logogram Sino-Korean vocabulary hanja system. It was created in the mid-fifteenth century, and is now the official writing system of both North Korea and South Korea, being co-official in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of China....
:?? Hanja
Hanja

Hanja is the Korean language name for Chinese characters. More specifically, it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese language and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation....
:??), the governor of Jeolla province (Hangul
Hangul

Hangul is the native alphabet of the Korean language, as distinguished from the logogram Sino-Korean vocabulary hanja system. It was created in the mid-fifteenth century, and is now the official writing system of both North Korea and South Korea, being co-official in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of China....
: ?????; Hanja
Hanja

Hanja is the Korean language name for Chinese characters. More specifically, it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese language and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation....
: ?????), before and during the Imjin War.

Jeolla

History

Geography

Culture

Notable personalities

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