Later Balhae

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Later Balhae was established in 928, by Dae Jeong-Hyun, who was a son of King Ae of Balhae. It was the first of the immediate successor states to Balhae after its fall to the Khitan in 926.

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Later Balhae started out as an attempt by the remaining former Balhae Aristocracy to seat a new king onto the Balhae throne and revive the nation. The conquered people of Balhae immediately began rebelling against the Khitan and this matter began to swerve out of control for the Dongdan Kingdom. Starting in 927, the Khitan had begun to hunt down and execute all members of the royal family in order to destroy any chances of a new king or queen to rise to the throne of Balhae. However, two members of the royal family, Crown Prince Dae Gwang-Hyun and Dae Jeong-Hyun, survived. The Balhae Crown Prince took Balhae refugees, mostly former Goguryeo people, and escaped down to their southern neighbor, Goryeo, where the newly-risen Emperor Taejo of Goryeo accepted them with generosity.

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