History Lives – Goguryeo Edition: Episode 31: Balhae Rebuilds Goguryeo

1. In 698, thirty years after Goguryeo fell in 668, refugees founded a state at Dongmosan, which later became Balhae.
2. Dae Jo-yeong led refugees out of Yeongju and defeated the Tang pursuit force at the Battle of Cheonmunnyeong before reaching Dongmosan.
3. In a letter to Japan, Balhae called itself the 'King of Goryeo,' but Chinese and other scholars regard it as a local ethnic regime subordinate to the Tang.

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