Pingjang

P'ing-jang English Proper noun en rare en Pingrang (Pyongyang). en 1669 1665 John Nievhoff w:John Ogilby An embassy from the East-India Company An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/ nl John Macock London 407084353 293 https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/page/n308/ The whole Iland is divided into eight Provinces or Counties : The middlemot, and accounted the firt, bears the name of Kinki, wherein is ituated the chief City of Pingiang, the Court of the Kings. on en w:Arnoldus Montanus w:John Ogilby Atlas Japannensis: Being Remarkable Addresses by Way of Embassy ... from the East-India Company ... to the Emperor of Japan 1670 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Atlas_Japannensis_Being_Remarkable_Addre/dX1hAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 184 https://books.google.com/books?id=dX1hAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA184 The four Northern Territories bordering next to Tartary, he had already mierably ruin'd, when the King of Corea rais'd an Army to oppoe the Tartars (who then design'd to Beiege the Metropolis Pingjang) chuing a convenient place for Ambucade , to urprie them in their March , and , as deign'd , uddenly allied out upon them, upecting there no Oppoition; en w:Arnoldus Montanus w:John Ogilby A Memorable Embassy to the Emperor of Japan Remarkable Addresses by Way of Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Emperor of Japan.Containing a Description of Their Several Territories, Cities, Temples, and Fortresses; Their Religions, Laws, and Customs; Their Prodigious VVealth, and Gorgeous Habits; the Nature of Their Soil, Plants, Beasts, Hills, Rivers, and Fountains: With the Character of the Ancient and Modern Japanners. Collected out of Their Several Writings and Journals by Arnoldus Montanus, English’d, and Adorn’d with a Hundred Several Sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq; His Majesty’s Cosmographer, Geographick Printer, and Master of the Revels in the Kingdom of Ireland. London Printed by [T]he Author,and are to be had at his House in White Fryers 1671 131 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_remarkable-addresses-by-_montanus-arnoldus_1671/page/n161/ WIthin stands the Idol Toranga, who had formerly been a great Hunter in Corca, and commonly dwelt in the Metropolis Pingjang; some Centuries before the Chinesy King Hiaovus, subdu'd and brought under his subjection half the Island Corea, which had never before tasted the cruelty of the Tartars, nor heard of the Spoils of Sandaracha, with which the Japanners and Chineses furnish their Houses: en 1701 CORéE, or COREA The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical Dictionary; Being a Curious Miscellany of Sacred and Prophane History ... Collected from the Best Historians, Chronologers and Lexicographers ... But More Especially Out of Lewis Morery, D.D. His Eighth Edition Corrected and Enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc 1 https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-great-historical-ge_morri-louis_1701_1/ All the Peninſula is divided into eight Provinces ; that which lies in the middle is called Kinki, where the famous Town Pingjang, the King's ordinary Reſidence is; beſides which, there are ſeveral Towns and Cities very well peopled, whoſe Inhabitants have the ſame Cuſtoms and Religion the Chineſe have, for they keep their dead Bodies in fine Coffins for three Years together, during which time they render it as much reſpect and civility ,” as if he that it 64, to were ſtill living, and at the end of the three years they bury them. en 1947 The China Annual https://books.google.com/books?id=6_88AQAAIAAJ Shanghai The Asia Statistics Co 58449437 47 A.D.[668] (Dec.) Eastern Garrison was established in Pingjang (zh 平壤) in Korea.