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East Asia · Confederacies, Han and the steppe

Dongye

drawn on the map AD 1–391

Dongye (Ye) was a chiefdom on the east-central Korean coast, contemporary with Okjeo. Described in the Chinese Records of the Three Kingdoms, it practiced a harvest festival (Mucheon), exogamy, and had a distinctive custom of village boundaries (chaekhwa) with penalties for trespass.

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Shown on the map
AD 1–391
Peak area
29k km²
Region
East Asia

Overview

Dongye (Ye) was a chiefdom on the east-central Korean coast, contemporary with Okjeo. Described in the Chinese Records of the Three Kingdoms, it practiced a harvest festival (Mucheon), exogamy, and had a distinctive custom of village boundaries (chaekhwa) with penalties for trespass. Economically it produced the famous "guhach'ma" ponies, seal skins, and hemp cloth. It fell under Goguryeo and Silla domination and was eventually absorbed.

Common questions

What was Dongye?
Dongye (Ye) was a chiefdom on the east-central Korean coast, contemporary with Okjeo. Described in the Chinese Records of the Three Kingdoms, it practiced a harvest festival (Mucheon), exogamy, and had a distinctive custom of village boundaries (chaekhwa) with penalties for trespass.
When is Dongye shown on the map?
The border data draws Dongye AD 1–391. The source samples borders at fixed dates, so a span can begin late or run on past the end.
How large was Dongye?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, Dongye covered about 29,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.

Sources

This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia article for each polity as the basis of these profiles, supplemented by Encyclopaedia Britannica, chinaknowledge.de, the World History Encyclopedia, museum and university sources, and the academic works it lists. The article this entry is anchored on:

This entry was last updated .

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Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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