신라의 거제도 郡縣 편제 과정

Abstract

Examined in this article is the Shilla government’s process of absorbtion of the Geoje-do island into its local structure as a Gun/Hyeon(郡縣) unit. Examination is conducted through written records as well as archaeological findings from the time period since the middle and later periods of the 6th century, through the entire 8th. The purpose of this examination is to determine how the local control of an ancient administration was established and maintained upon an island. Shilla started to expand its territory to the Geoje-do island after the fall of Gaya, but was only able to integrate the area into its own local administrative structure during the reign of king Munmu. A Shilla-type burial ground(tomb), with a stone-walled chamber and a horizontal passageway, seems to have been established in the area since the middle and later periods of the 6th century. And apparently many Shilla-styled fortresses like Dundeokgi-seong, Oksan-seongji and Dadae-sangseong were constructed in the area since the early 7th century. The Shilla government’s establishment of Gun and Hyeon units upon the Geoje-do island displayed a total of three phases. The first phase unfolded during the middle and later periods of the 6th century, during which the Shilla people constructed burial mounds in the area and recruited the local influentials as future state citizens of Shilla. The second phase occurred in the early half of the 7th century, when Shilla controlled the area with mountain fortresses it established throughout the island. And in the third and final phase, the Shilla government dispatched local prefects to the area and officially designated the inner areas of the island as Gun and Hyeon units. The Geoje-do island, after going through these three phases, finally became part of the Shilla Gun/Hyeon structure. The administrative centers of the Shilla Gun and Hyeon units on Geoje-do were mainly established upon mountain fortresses, and had both defensive and administrative capabilities. Most of them were located on fortresses positioned on the southern coastal line of the island, in order to monitor incoming Japanese ships. After Shilla’s unification, the Sacheon area began to serve as a portal, through which the Geoje-do population would conduct commercial exchanges with the Wae Japanese. Geoje-do became a patrol post, presumably overseeing Japanese ships coming and going in the Southern sea.