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| {{Infobox Korean name | |||
| |hangul=고국양왕 | |||
| |hanja=故國壤王 | |||
| |rr=Gogugyang-wang | |||
| |mr=Kogugyang-wang | |||
| |hangulborn=고이련, 이속, 어지지 | |||
| |hanjaborn=高伊連, 伊速, 於只支 | |||
| |rrborn=Go I-ryeon, Isok, Eojiji | |||
| |mrborn=Ko Iryŏn | |||
| }} | |||
| {{Goguryeo monarchs}} | |||
| King '''Gogugyang of Goguryeo''' (?-391, r. 384-391) was the 18th ruler of ], the northernmost of the ]. During his reign, the balance of power among the Three Kingdoms began to shift, as Goguryeo attacked ], and allied with ]. | |||
| == Background and rise to the throne == | |||
| He was the son of the 16th king ], who was killed by the ] king ] in the latter's assault on ] Castle. Gogugyang was also the younger brother of the 17th king ], and the father of the 19th king ]. | |||
| Gogugyang rose to the throne when Sosurim died without a son. | |||
| == Reign == | |||
| In the second year of his reign, Gogukyang sent 40,000 troops to attack the Chinese state of ] in the ]. The Goguryeo army captured Liaodong and ], and took 10,000 prisoners. In that winter, Yan counterattacked and recovered both provinces. | |||
| In 386, the prince Go Dam-deok, the later King ], was designated heir to the throne. | |||
| Goguryeo attacked the southern Korean kingdom of ] in 386, which returned the attacks in 389 and 390. In the spring of 391, Goguryeo signed a treaty of friendship with King ] of ], another of the Three Kingdoms, and received Naemul's nephew ] as a hostage. | |||
| == Death and succession== | |||
| He furthered the formal state adoption of ] and ], building a national temple and repairing the ancestral shrine. | |||
| He died in his eighth year on the throne, in the fifth lunar month of 391. He was given the ] of Gogugyang. | |||
| ==See also== | |||
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