[KS] A site identification?

[Frank Hoffmann]

Hello Professor Best, and other:

The online Korean History Database (한국사 데이터베이스) is a very good 
place to check if certain place names (and personal names) appear in 
major Korean historical records: http://db.history.go.kr/  What comes 
up there is the very same footnote Professor Best refers to in his 
posting, just the Korean translation of it: "경북 高靈郡 斗谷面 荷山에 
비정된다."

Specuations ...
I would, with all reservations, speculate that the Japanese scholar who 
wrote that footnote 13 might have been mixing up administrative units 
(-gun and -li) and thus ended up in North Kyŏngsang-do instead of South 
Kyŏngsang-do. And I do not think that the place you are trying to 
identify was in Ch'angnyŏng county either as Matthieu Felt mentioned, 
as there never was such Tugong-myŏn either. A Tugong-myŏn as such seems 
to have never existed. I thus wonder if that Hasan (荷山) is Hasan-ni 
belonging to Hamyang-gun in South Kyŏngsang-do (in Han'gŭl 경상남도 함양
군 하산리). At first sight that sure would make a lot of sense, as it 
is known for what is called Hamyang's Sa'gŭnsansŏng Fortress (咸陽 沙斤
山城), well, the relatively well preserved (from what I see in the 
Internet) remainders of that Three Kingdoms fortress:
http://hamyang.org/sakun.htm
More photos at this blog:
http://cafe.daum.net/jh13725/bnk/184?docid=Whz9bnk18420100315004016
***However***, I was not able to find the writing for 하산리 in Hanja 
(in that location, in Hamyang-gun) … have a wonderful North Korean 
handbook of administrative divisions of all Korea as a reprint from 
China, but that is not with me now … and I could not verify this 
online. Maybe someone else on the KS List can?

If you like to check out the site on a variety of (current all almost 
current) maps, please go here:
http://koreaweb.ws/maps/?zoom=9&lat=35.89029&lon=128.40585&layers=00B00000000FTTTT
(s_l_o_w loading, sorry … possibly hit the ENTER button again … on 
the right you can choose various maps without changing the location)

  
Best,
Frank


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Frank Hoffmann
http://koreaweb.ws