Confederacy of territorial polities in the Korean Nakdong River basin (AD 42-562)
Gaya confederacy
加倻
42–562
Map showing the approximate location of selected Gaya polities.
Common languages
Gaya
Religion
Buddhism, Shamanism
Government
Confederacy
• 42–199
Suro (first, Geumgwan)
• ?-562
Doseolji (last, Dae)
Historical era
Ancient
• Establishment
42
• Submission to Silla
562
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Byeonhan confederacy
Silla
Baekje
Today part of
South Korea
Gaya confederacy
Duck-shaped pottery from Gaya, 5th or 6th century.
Korean name
Hangul
가야
Hanja
加耶 or 伽倻
Revised Romanization
Gaya
McCune–Reischauer
Kaya
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Gaya (Hanja: 加倻, Korean pronunciation:[ka.ja]) was a Korean confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea,[1] growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period.
The traditional period used by historians for Gaya chronology is AD 42–532. According to archaeological evidence in the third and fourth centuries some of the city-states of Byeonhan evolved into the Gaya confederacy, which was later annexed by Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. The individual polities that made up the Gaya confederacy have been characterized as small city-states.[2] The material culture remains of Gaya culture mainly consist of burials and their contents of mortuary goods that have been excavated by archaeologists. Archaeologists interpret mounded burial cemeteries of the late third and early fourth centuries such as Daeseong-dong in Gimhae and Bokcheon-dong in Busan as the royal burial grounds of Gaya polities.[3]
^(2001). Kaya. In The Penguin Archaeology Guide, edited by Paul Bahn, pp. 228–229. Penguin, London.
^Barnes, Gina L. (2001). Introducing Kaya History and Archaeology. In State Formation in Korea: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives, pp. 179–200. Curzon, London.
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