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Shuri Castle and the Gusuku

Seat of the Ryukyu Kingdom on Okinawa, and the largest of the gusuku - fortified stone enclosures unlike anything on the Japanese mainland. Ryukyu traded across East and Southeast Asia as an independent kingdom for four and a half centuries before Japan annexed it in 1879.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1187 CE mainstream
  Gusuku period begins; stone castle-building on Okinawa source
• 1429 CE mainstream
  Ryukyu Kingdom unified under Shō Hashi source
• 1879 CE mainstream
  kingdom annexed by Japan source
• 2000 CE mainstream
  inscribed as a World Heritage site source

Where

26.2086° N, 127.6828° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gusuku_Sites_and_Related_Properties_of_the_Kingdom_of_Ryukyu

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