Castle
Ch'ŏngmasansŏng
🇰🇷 South Korea
Ch'ŏngmasansŏng (Korean: 청마산성; Hanja: 靑馬山城) was a Korean fortress of Baekje in what is now Buyeo County, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea. On January 21, 1963, it was designated Historic Site of South Korea No. 34.
It is located on the mountain Wolmyeongsan. It was constructed in the late Baekje period, and used to defend the capital Sabi. It was the largest and finest of Baekje's fortresses. It had a circumference of 9,277 m (30,436 ft). A number of former sites of its facilities are known, including 10 gates, 36 guard posts, 17 wells, and 14 tombs.
Text adapted from “Ch'ŏngmasansŏng” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ch'ŏngmasansŏng ranks #4,641 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #33 of the 56 mapped in South Korea. See how South Korea compares in the castle statistics.
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