Daegaya

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Daegaya

Daegaya was a city-state in the Gaya confederacy

Gaya confederacy

Gaya was a confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period....
during the Korea

Korea

Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
n Three Kingdoms

Three Kingdoms of Korea

The Three Kingdoms of Korea refer to the ancient Korean empire of Goguryeo, and kingdom of Baekje and Silla, which dominated the Korean peninsula and parts of Manchuria for much of the 1st millennium CE....
period. Daegaya was located in present-day Goryeong County

Goryeong County

Goryeong County is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea.Goryeong is a historical center of the ancient kingdom of Daegaya....
, in North Gyeongsang Province of South Korea

South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....
. (It should not be confused with Goryeong Gaya

Goryeong Gaya

Goryeong Gaya was one of the lesser chiefdoms of the Gaya confederacy during the Korean Three Kingdoms of Korea period. It was centered in present-day Sangju City, North Gyeongsang province, South Korea....
, which was located around present-day Sangju

Sangju

Sangju is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. Although Sangju is rather rural, it is very old and was once a key city....
.)

According to "Geographies" in Samguk Sagi
Samguk Sagi

Samguk Sagi is a historical record of the Three Kingdoms of Korea: Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla. The Samguk Sagi is written in Classical Chinese and its compilation was ordered by Goryeo King Injong and undertaken by the government official and historian Kim Busik and a team of junior scholars....
, Daegaya existed for about 520 years from the first king, Ijinashi, to the last, Doseolji. Daegaya had sixteen kings from King Ininashi to King Doseolji but only five of those are known; the 1st king was Ijinasi, the 9th king Inoe, the 16th king Doseolji, and King Haji, whose generation is uncertain.

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Daegaya was a city-state in the Gaya confederacy

Gaya confederacy

Gaya was a confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period....
during the Korea

Korea

Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
n Three Kingdoms

Three Kingdoms of Korea

Goryeong County

South Korea

Goryeong Gaya

Sangju

China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
records, he received a rank of the third order, one rank below Baekje

Baekje

Baekje , or Paekche , was a kingdom located in southwest Korea. It was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, together with Goguryeo and Silla....
and Silla

Silla

Silla was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, and the longest sustaining dynasty in Asian history. Although it was founded by King Bak Hyeokgeose of Silla, who is also known to be the originator of the Korean family name Park , the dynasty was to see the Kyungju Kim clan hold rule for most of its 992-year history....
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Daegaya developed quickly and played a major role in the Gaya confederacy in the 5th century AD, partly because of its advanced steel-making craft, but its progress and that of the confederacy were limited by the neighboring kingdoms of Baekje and Silla, which were more fully developed as centralized political entities. Incidental historical records and archeological findings indicate a highly stratified aristocratic

Aristocracy

Aristocracy is a form of government, in which a few of the most prominent citizens rule. This may be a hereditary elite, or it may be by a system of cooption where a council of prominent citizens add leading soldiers, merchants, land owners, priests, and lawyers to their number....
society in Daegaya and the Gaya confederacy at this time.

King Haji allied with Baekje and Silla to attack Goguryeo

Goguryeo

Goguryeo or Koguryo was an ancient Koreans Empire located in the northern and central parts of the Korean peninsula, southern Manchuria, and southern Primorsky Krai....
in 481 AD. Daegaya allied with Baekje to attack Silla (which, for Baekje, was in response to Silla's breach of their 120-year truce) at the battle of Gwansan Fortress in 554 AD, but both Baekje and Gaya suffered heavy losses. This confrontation policy alienated the other member states of the Gaya confederation, and Daegaya lost its leadership of Gaya to Ara Gaya

Ara Gaya

Ara Gaya, also known as Ana Gaya, Asiryangguk ]]), and Alla , was a City-state kingdom in the part of Gaya confederacy, in modern day Haman County of South Korea....
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Daegaya fell to the armies of Silla under general Kim Isabu

Kim Isabu

Kim Isabu was a general of Silla during the 6th century. He is best remembered today for his role in subjugating the island nation of Usan-guk which is known as Ulleung-do today....
in 562 AD; Silla, having already begun to absorb much of the Gaya confederacy, had invaded Daegaya as punishment for having allied with Baekje in 554.

Daegaya

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