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Okjeo
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Okjeo () was an ancient Korean tribal state which arose in the northern Korean peninsula from perhaps the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE.

Key facts

Korean name/auto.hangul
^옥저
Korean name/auto.hanja
沃沮
Korean name/auto.ipa
ok̚.t͈ɕʌ
Language.name
Okjeo
Language.altname
Okchŏ
Language.states
Okjeo
Language.region
Korea
Language.era
250 BC – 500 AD
Language.familycolor
altaic
Language.fam1
Koreanic?
Language.fam2
Puyŏ
Language.iso3
none
Language.glotto
none
Language.map
Langues Buyeo.png
Language.mapcaption
Map of the Buyeo languages, including Okjeo

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
tribe
Area
30000
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described by source
Gujin Tushu Jicheng
located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
Russia
native label
옥저
inception
0300-00-00
dissolved, abolished or demolished date
0300-00-00
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Okjeo () was an ancient Korean tribal state which arose in the northern Korean peninsula from perhaps the 2nd century BCE to the 5th century CE.

Dong-okjeo (Eastern Okjeo) occupied roughly the area of the Hamgyŏng provinces of North Korea, and Buk-okjeo (Northern Okjeo) occupied the Duman River region.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Okjeo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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