신라 왕경인의 지방 이주와 編籍地

Abstract

Since the late 5th century, the population of the capital of Silla had continually increased. Some of the ruling class of the neighboring small countries had immigrated to the capital of Silla, which brought the wealth and goods to the capital as well. The government of Silla felt the need to distract the population and the wealth, and started to install the secondary capitals, called Sogyŏng(小京). Total of 5 secondary capitals were installed after the Silla Unification. The ruling class of the capital extended their territories to the outskirts of the capital. Some of the aristocrats emigrated as a group to the secondary capitals, or to the rural districts, such as chu(州) or gun(郡) after the Unification. In this study, I examined if there were changes in the status of the aristocrats who moved to the rural area, and if they had modified the place of their family register as well. My conclusion is that the Silla aristocrats, whether they lived in the Silla capital, secondary capitals, or the rural districts, considered themselves to be the citizens of the Silla capital. Those who migrated from the Silla capital to the other parts of the country put one of the 6 districts of the capital as their place of family register, and even kept it through the generations. They did so because putting the Silla capital as the place of their family register worked as the basic condition for them to keep their bone rank status and the privileges that followed. In my opinion, the large number of the population of Silla capital shown in the record, which was counted up to one hundred and seventy thousand families, includes these migrated numbers who claimed to belong to the Silla capital as well.