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Geumgwan Gaya (43 - 532), or "Crown Gaya", also known as Bon-Gaya (???, ???, "original Gaya") or Garakguk (???, "Garak State"), was the ruling city-state of 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 Three Kingdoms Period
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....
 in 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....
. It is believed to have been located around the modern-day city of Gimhae
Gimhae

Gimhae, also commonly spelled Kimhae, is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is the seat of the large Gimhae Kim clan, one of the largest Kim clans in Korea....
, Southern Gyeongsang province
Gyeongsangnam-do

Gyeongsangnam-do is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in the southeast of South Korea. The provincial capital is located at Changwon....
, near the mouth of the Nakdong River
Nakdong River

The Nakdong River is the longest river in South Korea, and passes through major cities such as Daegu and Busan....
. Due to its geographic location, this kingdom played a dominant role in the regional affairs from the Byeonhan
Byeonhan confederacy

Byeonhan, also known as Byeonjin, was a loose confederacy of chiefdoms that existed from around the beginning of the Common Era to the 4th century in the southern Korean peninsula....
 period onward to the end of the Gaya confederacy.

According to the Samguk Yusa
Samguk Yusa

Samguk Yusa, or Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms, is a collection of legends, folktales, and historical accounts relating to the Three Kingdoms of Korea , as well as to other periods and states before, during, and after the Three Kingdoms period....
, Geumgwan Kaya was made of 9 villages united by King Suro of Gaya.






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Geumgwan Gaya (43 - 532), or "Crown Gaya", also known as Bon-Gaya (???, ???, "original Gaya") or Garakguk (???, "Garak State"), was the ruling city-state of 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 Three Kingdoms Period
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....
 in 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....
. It is believed to have been located around the modern-day city of Gimhae
Gimhae

Gimhae, also commonly spelled Kimhae, is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is the seat of the large Gimhae Kim clan, one of the largest Kim clans in Korea....
, Southern Gyeongsang province
Gyeongsangnam-do

Gyeongsangnam-do is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in the southeast of South Korea. The provincial capital is located at Changwon....
, near the mouth of the Nakdong River
Nakdong River

The Nakdong River is the longest river in South Korea, and passes through major cities such as Daegu and Busan....
. Due to its geographic location, this kingdom played a dominant role in the regional affairs from the Byeonhan
Byeonhan confederacy

Byeonhan, also known as Byeonjin, was a loose confederacy of chiefdoms that existed from around the beginning of the Common Era to the 4th century in the southern Korean peninsula....
 period onward to the end of the Gaya confederacy.

According to the Samguk Yusa
Samguk Yusa

Samguk Yusa, or Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms, is a collection of legends, folktales, and historical accounts relating to the Three Kingdoms of Korea , as well as to other periods and states before, during, and after the Three Kingdoms period....
, Geumgwan Kaya was made of 9 villages united by King Suro of Gaya. His wife and queen Heo Hwang-ok
Heo Hwang-ok

Heo Hwang-ok was a princess who travelled from the ancient kingdom of Ayodhya to Korea. Information about her comes almost entirely from a few short passages in the Samguk Yusa, an 11th-century Korean chronicle....
, whom he married in 48 AD, is believed to be a princess from the Ayodhya
Ayodhya

Ayodhya is an ancient city of India, the old capital of Awadh, in the Faizabad district of Uttar Pradesh. Ayodhya is described as the birth place of Hindu god Shri Ram....
 region in what is now India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
, although this may have been an embellishment made during later Buddhist times.

During this early time in the history of Gaya, several waves of migration from the north, including the earlier-extant Gojoseon
Gojoseon

Gojoseon was an ancient Korean kingdom, considered the first proper nation of the Korean people. According to the Samguk Yusa and other Korean medieval-era records, Gojoseon is said to have been founded in 2333 BC by the legendary Dangun, who is said to be the grandson of Heaven ....
, Buyeo
Buyeo (state)

Buyeo, Puyo , was an ancient Koreans kingdom located from today's Manchuria to northern North Korea, from around the 2nd century BC to 494....
, and the 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....
, arrived and integrated with existing populations and stimulated cultural and political developments. A sharp break in burial styles is found in archaeological sites dated near the late 3rd century AD, when these migrations are to have taken place. Burial forms associated with North Asian nomadic peoples, such as the burial of horses with the dead, suddenly replace earlier forms in the tombs of the elite (Cheol 2000). In addition, evidence exists indicating that earlier burials were systematically destroyed. In the early 1990s, a royal tomb complex was unearthed in Daeseong-dong, Gimhae
Gimhae

Gimhae, also commonly spelled Kimhae, is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is the seat of the large Gimhae Kim clan, one of the largest Kim clans in Korea....
, attributed to Geumgwan Gaya but apparently used since Byeonhan times.

After Geumgwan Gaya capitulated to 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....
 in 532 AD, its royal house was accepted into the Sillan aristocracy (probably because by that time, a major house of Silla, of the Gimhae Kim clan, was related to the Gaya royal house, which was also of the same clan) and given the rank of "true bone," the second-highest level of the Silla bone rank system
Bone rank system

The bone rank system was the system of Aristocracy rank used in the ancient Korean kingdom of Silla. It was used to segregate society, and particularly the layers of the aristocracy, on the basis of their hereditary proximity to the throne and the level of authority they were permitted to wield....
. General Kim Yu-shin of Silla (also of the Gimhae Kim clan) was a descendant of the last king of Gaya.

See also

  • History of Korea
    History of Korea

    The history of Korea stretches from Lower Paleolithic times to the present. The earliest known Korean pottery dates to around 8000 BC, and the Neolithic period began before 6000 BC, followed by the Bronze Age around 2500 BC....
  • List of Korean monarchs
  • 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....
  • List of Korea-related topics
    List of Korea-related topics

    This is a list of articles on Korea-related people, places, things, and concepts. For help on how to use this list, see the #Introduction below....