Gyeongseong

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Gyeongseong was the Japanese colonial-era name for Seoul, which served as the administrative and political center of Korea under Japanese rule.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Gyeongseong canonical 3
Hanseong 1

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Statements (33)

Predicate Object
instanceOf colonial-era name
exonym
historical city name
administrativeCenterOf Korea under Japanese rule
associatedWith Governor-General of Korea
capitalOf Korea under Japanese rule
colonialPower Imperial Japan
surface form: Empire of Japan
country Korea
endTime 1945
historicalContext Korea under Japanese rule
surface form: Japanese occupation of Korea
languageOfName Japanese
locatedIn Korea
Korean Peninsula
locatedInPresentDay Seoul
modernName Seoul
nameType colonial toponym
partOf Japanese colonial administration in Korea
politicalCenterOf Korea under Japanese rule
predecessor Hanseong
replacedBy Seoul as official name
role administrative center
colonial capital
political center
romanizationVariant Keijō
significance center of colonial governance in Korea
startTime 1910
successor Seoul
topLevelAdministrativeUnit Government-General of Korea
usedBy Japanese colonial administration
usedDuringPeriod Japanese rule over Korea
Korean Empire annexation period
usedInScripts Hangul
Kanji

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Korean Empire capital Gyeongseong
this entity surface form: Hanseong
Seoul Special City formerName Gyeongseong
Lee Maeng-hee placeOfBirth Gyeongseong