The Gyerim Territory Area Command was a proposed autonomous administration to be established in

Silla Silla or Shilla (57 BCE – 935 CE) ( , Old Korean: Syera, Old Japanese: Siraki2) was a Korean kingdom located on the southern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula. Silla, along with Baekje and Goguryeo, formed the Three Kingdoms of ...

territory by the

Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdo ...

. In the place of

Baekje Baekje or Paekche (, ) was a Korean kingdom located in southwestern Korea from 18 BC to 660 AD. It was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, together with Goguryeo and Silla. Baekje was founded by Onjo of Baekje, Onjo, the third son of Gogurye ...

and

Goguryeo Goguryeo (37 BC–668 AD) ( ) also called Goryeo (), was a Korean kingdom located in the northern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula and the southern and central parts of Northeast China. At its peak of power, Goguryeo controlled mos ...

, the Tang created the

Protectorate General to Pacify the East The Protectorate-General to Pacify the East () was an administrative division of the Chinese Tang dynasty in Manchuria and the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. It was established after the Tang dynasty defeated Goguryeo and annexed its ter ...

, Ungjin Commandery.

History

In 660, when a joint Silla-Tang alliance destroyed

, the Tang dynasty established a protectorate named Ungjin Commandery in its stead. Furthermore, the Tang emperor offered to Munmu of Silla that he take over a proposed protectorate called the "Great Commandery of Gyerim", which was refused. Following the offer Silla launched a surprise attack against the Tang forces and destroyed the Ungjin commandery. Over the course of several battles Tang forces would be driven north of the Taedong river by the Silla army. In the south of Silla another administrative subdivision named

Jimizhou The Jimi system () or Jimifuzhou () was an autonomous administrative and political organization system used in China between the 7th century and 10th century. It should not to be confused with the tributary system. The term "Jimi" was first seen i ...

was to be set up.

Munmu of Silla Munmu of Silla (626–681; reigned 661–681) was the 30th king of the Korean kingdom of Silla. He is usually considered to have been the first ruler of the Unified Silla period. Munmu was the son of King Muyeol and Munmyeong, who was the y ...

was to be nominated as first "commander"''

Samguk Sagi ''Samguk Sagi'' (, ''History of the Three Kingdoms'') is a historical record of the Three Kingdoms of Korea: Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla. The ''Samguk Sagi'' is written in Classical Chinese, the written language of the literati of ancient Kore ...

'' 新羅本紀文武王三年「大唐以我国為鶏林大都督府…（中略）…際天所覆、悉臣而属之。薄海内外，無不州県」 After that the position was to be inherited by the line of rulers of Silla. In the 8th century,

An Lushan Rebellion The An Lushan Rebellion was an uprising against the Tang dynasty of China towards the mid-point of the dynasty (from 755 to 763), with an attempt to replace it with the Yan dynasty. The rebellion was originally led by An Lushan, a general off ...

began, Ping Lu Fanzhen (

Hanja Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, ...

:平盧藩鎮) was moved to

Shandong Peninsula The Shandong (Shantung) Peninsula or Jiaodong (Chiaotung) Peninsula is a peninsula in Shandong Province in eastern China, between the Bohai Sea to the north and the Yellow Sea to the south. The latter name refers to the east and Jiaozhou. Geo ...

and renamed as Zi Qing Ping Lu Fanzhen (

:淄青平盧藩鎮), Fanzhen attempted to hold a post of Commander of Gyerim Protectorate and crossed the sea for it.

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* {{coord missing, Korea Silla Administrative divisions of the Tang dynasty Former commanderies of China in Korea

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