[LEADERHEAD] Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo (Northern Korea)

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Gwanggaeto of Goguryeo (374–413, r. 391–413) was the nineteenth monarch of Goguryeo, the northernmost of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. His full posthumous name means "Supreme King, Broad Expander of Domain.

Under Gwanggaeto, Goguryeo began a golden age, becoming a powerful empire and one of the great powers in East Asia. Gwanggaeto made enormous advances and conquests into: Western Manchuria against Khitan tribes; Inner Mongolia and the Maritime Province of Russia against numerous tribes and nations; and the Han River valley in central Korea to control over two-thirds of the Korean peninsula.

In regard to the Korean peninsula, Gwanggaeto defeated Baekje, the then most powerful of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, in 396, capturing the capital city of Wiryeseong in present-day Seoul. In 399, Silla, the southeastern kingdom of Korea sought aid from Goguryeo due to incursions by Baekje troops and their Wa allies from the Japanese archipelago

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