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Great Yeongnam Road

Great Yeongnam Road near Rabbit Cliff, Mungyeong.

Korean name

Hangul	영남대로
Hanja	嶺南大路
Revised Romanization	Yeongnam Daero
McCune-Reischauer	Yǒngnam Taero

The Great Yeongnam Road, or Yeongnamdaero, was one of the principal roads of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910. Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. More specifically it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language Romanization system in South Korea. McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language Romanization systems along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which It ran between Hanseong (modern-day Seoul) and Dongnae (in modern-day Busan). Seoul ( soʊl is the Capital and largest City of South Korea. Dongnae-gu is a gu in northern Busan, South Korea. It has a population of about 300000 and an area of 16 More generally, it served to connect the Gyeongsang province to the capital. Gyeongsang ( Gyeongsang-do) was one of the eight provinces of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty. It takes its name from Yeongnam, an alternate name for the Gyeongsang region. Yeongnam (literally "south of the passes" is the name of a region that coincides with the former Gyeongsang Province in what is now South Korea. In addition to officials and merchants, the road was used by scholars from Gyeongsang on their way to and from the gwageo, national examinations held in the capital. The gwageo (or kwago) were the national civil service examinations under the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties of Korea

Much of the course of the road was destroyed in the course of the 20th century. The twentieth century of the Common Era began on However, a few small stretches have been preserved. The most notable of these is Mungyeong Saejae, where the road crossed the Sobaek Mountains. Mungyeong Saejae is a Mountain pass in central South Korea. It lies on Joryeong Mountain between the main peak (1017 m and Sinseon Peak (967 m The Sobaek Mountains are a Mountain range cutting across the southern Korean peninsula.

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