『三國史記』 地理志 수록 군현의 三國 分屬

Abstract

In 『Samguk sagi(三國史記)』’s 「Geography section(地理志)」, all the Gun-hyeon units’ origins are clarified, and in the beginning of every entry, there is a mention saying ‘originally Goguryeo’ or ‘originally Baekje’ or ‘originally Shilla.’ Examined in this article, are such categorization of all the units in the Geography section, and all the discrepancies confirmed. Their categorization into the Three Dynasties was not an accurate reflection of the borders among the three ancient dynasties at any given time point, but was a mere mathematical representation of ‘three Ju(州) provinces per dynasty,’ which demonstrates the compilers’ perception of the past at the time they were engaged in creating the Geography section of 『Samguk sagi』. In the early days of the Goryeo dynasty, the area north of the Samgak san mountain was considered as the old Goguryeo territory, and the area below the Han gang river was believed as the old territory of Baekje. The ‘Nine Ju provinces’ were allocated to the ‘Three dynasties’ in an equal fashion because the people of the time considered those 9 provinces as the symbol of Shilla’s unification of the three ancient kingdoms. But there were other records inside as well, which do not always correspond with such belief.