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  Story 75. “Seven Malgals ( 靺鞨七部 )” and “Geoguryeo ( 高句麗 )” combined from several “Goryeo ( 句麗 )”   Let’s look at one fact that is a little different from the bloodline issue of the royal family and the continuation. Namely, let’s look at the relationship between “Goguryeo ( 高句麗 )”, the central part of Goguryeo, “Goryeo ( 句麗 )”, the local town administrative district, and “Malgal 7 States ( 靺鞨七部 )”, the local mountain administrative district. Goguryeo had numerous town administrative districts called “Goryeo ( 句麗 )” and seven Malgal, or “Malgal 7 States ( 靺鞨七部 )”, as local mountain administrative districts in the border areas neighboring other countries. “Guryeo ( 句麗 )” originally meant “castle/fortress ( 城 )” or “seong-eup/city fortress ( 城邑 )” in Goguryeo-Malgal, and Malgal ( 靺鞨 ) means “mahol/horse ( 馬忽 )” or “malseong/horse fortress ( 馬城 )” as Jeong Yak-yong explained. In other words, it means “mal-goeul/horse town ( 馬邑 )” and “mal-goeul/horse-county ( 馬 - 郡 )”. In ...

Story. 74 Goguryeo Jan-eol - The remaining illegitimate children of the Goguryeo royal family   Jumong was the son of Buyeo person Hae Mo-su ( 解慕漱 ), and it was learned that Jumong ( 朱蒙 ), the founder of Goguryeo, and Onjo, the founder of Baekje, was Jumong's son. Hae Mo-su's legitimate son was Hae Buru, and Jumong was Hae Mo-su's illegitimate son. There is another important record that proves this fact. The record says that Balhae's "Dae-ssi ( 大氏 )" is "Goguryeo Jan-eol -the remaining illegitimate family( 高句麗殘孼 )." It is a sentence from Choi Chi-won's <Sangtaesasijungjang ( 上太師侍中壯 )>, which is included in the <Samguk Sagi ( 三國史記 )> Choi Chi-won's biography and Volume 43 of <Dangmunseupyu ( 唐文拾遺 )>. 『 In the first year of the reign of King Chongzhang, he ordered King Yeonggong Lee Jeok to break up Goguryeo, establish the Andong Governor-General's Office, and in the third year of Uibong, he moved the royal family to Hana...