Pingjang

The whole Iſland is divided into eight Provinces or Counties : The middlemoſt, and accounted the firſt, bears the name of Kinki, wherein is ſituated the chief City of Pingiang, the Court of the Kings.

The four Northern Territories bordering next to Tartary, he had already miſerably ruin'd, when the King of Corea rais'd an Army to oppoſe the Tartars (who then design'd to Beſiege the Metropolis Pingjang) chuſing a convenient place for Ambuſcade , to ſurpriſe them in their March , and , as deſign'd , ſuddenly ſallied out upon them, ſuſpecting there no Oppoſition;[…]

WIthin stands the Idol Toranga, who had formerly been a great Hunter in Corca, and commonly dwelt in the Metropolis Pingjang; some Centuries before the Chinesy King Hiaovus, subdu'd and brought under his subjection half the Island Corea, which had never before tasted the cruelty of the Tartars, nor heard of the Spoils of Sandaracha, with which the Japanners and Chineses furnish their Houses:[…]

All the Peninſula is divided into eight Provinces ; that which lies in the middle is called Kinki, where the famous Town Pingjang, the King's ordinary Reſidence is; beſides which, there are ſeveral Towns and Cities very well peopled, whoſe Inhabitants have the ſame Cuſtoms and Religion the Chineſe have, for they keep their dead Bodies in fine Coffins for three Years together, during which time they render it as much reſpect and civility ,” as if he that it 64, to were ſtill living, and at the end of the three years they bury them.

A.D. [668] (Dec.) Eastern Garrison was established in Pingjang (平壤) in Korea.