Editing History of Korea (section)

====Northern states====
{{Main|Buyeo|Okjeo|Eastern Ye}}

After the fall of [[Gojoseon]], [[Buyeo]] arose in today's North Korea and southern [[Manchuria]], from about the 2nd century BC to 494 AD. Its remnants were absorbed by [[Goguryeo]] in 494, and both Goguryeo and [[Baekje]], two of the [[Three Kingdoms of Korea]], considered themselves its successor.{{sfn|Lee|Park|Yoon|2005|pp= 109–116}}

Although records are sparse and contradictory, it is thought that in 86 BC, [[Eastern Buyeo|Dongbuyeo]] (Eastern Buyeo) branched out, after which the original Buyeo is sometimes referred to as [[Buyeo|Bukbuyeo]] (Northern Buyeo). [[Holbon|Jolbon Buyeo]] was the predecessor to [[Goguryeo]], and in 538, Baekje renamed itself ''Nambuyeo'' (Southern Buyeo).<ref>{{in lang|ko}} [http://100.nate.com/dicsearch/pentry.html?s=K&i=254242&v=43 Buyeo] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120701173656/http://100.nate.com/dicsearch/pentry.html?s=K&i=254242&v=43 |date=2012-07-01 }} [[Encyclopedia of Korean Culture]]</ref>

[[Okjeo]] was a tribal-state that was located in the northern [[Korea|Korean Peninsula]], and was established after the fall of Gojoseon. Okjeo had been a part of [[Gojoseon]] before its fall. It never became a fully developed kingdom due to the intervention of its neighboring kingdoms. Okjeo became a tributary of Goguryeo, and was eventually annexed into Goguryeo by [[Gwanggaeto the Great]] in the 5th century.{{sfn|Lee|Park|Yoon|2005|pp= 128–130}}

[[Eastern Ye|Dongye]] (Eastern Ye) was another small kingdom that was situated in the northern [[Korea|Korean Peninsula]]. Dongye bordered [[Okjeo]], and the two kingdoms faced the same fate of becoming tributaries of the growing empire of [[Goguryeo]]. Dongye was also a former part of [[Gojoseon]] before its fall.{{sfn|Lee|Park|Yoon|2005|pp= 130–131}}