After the unification
of the peninsula up to Taedong River in 668 AD, Gyeongju became the center
of Korean political and cultural life. The
city was home to the Silla court and the great majority of the kingdom's elite.
Its prosperity became legendary, and was reported as far away as Persia according to the 9th century book, The Book of Roads and Kingdoms. Records of SamgukYusa give the city's population in its peak
period as 178,936 households, suggesting
that the total population was almost one million. Many of Gyeongju's most famous sites
date from this Unified Silla
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