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Queen Seondeok of Silla

Queen of Silla

b. 595 CE – d. 647 CE World The Far East

Queen Seondeok of Silla (?

- 17 February 647) reigns as Queen of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 632 to 647.

She is Silla's twenty-seventh ruler, and its first reigning queen.

She is the second female sovereign in East Asian history and encourages a renaissance in thought, literature, and the arts in Silla.