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One of the Eight Provinces of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty.
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The West Coast line is exceedingly irregular. The Province of P’ing An, starting from the mouth of the Ya-lu River, on which stands the emporium of I-chou, extends for the larger half southward, then trending eastward, forms a large estuary, the southern side of which again pushes out some distance westerly.
Next, the Chinese text says that they set forth from the district of Lo-lang, which is situated not in Leao-tung, but in Corea, and of which the capital is the present city of Pʽing-jang (in d’Auville’s map, Ping-yang), situated upon the northern bank of the Ta-tʽung-kiang, or Pʽai-shue, a river of the province of Pʽing-ngan, which, in great part, in the time of the dynasty of Han, formed the district of Lo-lang.
The Dynasty was then threatened by innumerable peasant rebellions, of which the Hong Kyong-Nae Rebellion in 1811 in the 11th year of King Sunjo, was the largest. The insurrection erupted when Hong capitalized on the Government’s discriminatory treatment of the people of Pyongan Province and on the misery of farmers.
Since 1887, the northern part of Pyongan Province had been repeatedly visited by missionaries. On those early visits they were particularly interested in Euiju on the border.
A people movement of great proportions started in the Presbyterian Church in Pyongan Province, Korea, in 1897.
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A series of peasant uprisings begun in 889 in the Korean Peninsula, which ultimately led to the downfall of the Unified Silla, was one of the early cases. Peasant rebellions of 1172 in Pyŏngan Province, the revolt of Mangi and Mangsoi in 1176 in Kongju, Ch'ungch'ŏng Province, the insurrections of Kim Sami and Hyosim in 1193 in Kyŏngsang Province and the peasant rebellion in 1199 in Myŏngju (Kangnung), Kangwŏn Province were notable during the Koryŏ Dynasty.
In 1569 Choe Bu’s grandson, Yu Hi-chun, published the book in a wood block edition at Jeongju, Pyeongan Province.
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Pyeongyang, the leading urban center in the Pyeongan Province, is the capital of North Korea and Nampo serves as the gateway port to Pyeongyang.