Seoul
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- Names
Sŏul
Kyŏngsŏng
Keijō
Keijo
Seúl
Seoul
Seul
Hanyang
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Founded by King T'aejo 1390s; burned in Japanese invasion of 1529, rebuilt 1867; modernized & developed under Japanese rule 1910-1945; extensively damaged in Korean War, but largely rebuilt since 1953; regional capital of Seoul special city.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); Rand McNally Atlas (1991); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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