Pyongan

Proper noun

1. One of the Eight Provinces of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty.
   • The West Coast line is exceedingly irregular. The Province of P’ing An, starting from the mouth of the Ya-lu River, on which stands the emporium of I-chou, extends for the larger half southward, then trending eastward,...
   • Next, the Chinese text says that they set forth from the district of Lo-lang, which is situated not in Leao-tung, but in Corea, and of which the capital is the present city of Pʽing-jang (in d’Auville’s map, Ping-yang),...
   • The Dynasty was then threatened by innumerable peasant rebellions, of which the Hong Kyong-Nae Rebellion in 1811 in the 11th year of King Sunjo, was the largest. The insurrection erupted when Hong capitalized on the...