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Battle of Gwiju

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Gwiju (Kusong) · northern Korea

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Climactic 1019 battle of the Third Goryeo–Khitan War in which the Goryeo general Gang Gam-chan annihilated the retreating Khitan invasion army, after which the Liao never again invaded Korea.

Belligerents2

Goryeo
Liao dynasty (Khitan)

ON THE MAPGoryeo

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Gwiju
Goryeosa (History of Goryeo)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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