Geumgwan Gaya

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Geumgwan Gaya
Hangul 금관가야 Hanja 金官伽倻 Revised Romanization Geumgwan Gaya McCune-Reischauer Kŭmgwan Kaya

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Geumgwan Gaya (43 - 532), or "Crown Gaya", also known as Bon-Gaya (본가야, 本伽倻, "origin Gaya") or Garakguk (가락국, "Garak State"),was the ruling city-state of the Gaya confederacy during the Three Kingdoms Period in Korea. It is believed to have been located in the modern-day city of Gimhae, Southern Gyeongsang province, near the mouth of the Nakdong River. Due to its geographic location, this kingdom played a dominant role in the regional affairs from the Byeonhan period onward to the Gaya confederacy.

According to Samguk Yusa, Kumgwan Kaya was made of 9 villages united by King Suro of Gaya. His wife Heo Hwang-ok is said to be a princess from Ayodhya region in India [many believe this Indian story to be a myth], although this may have been an embellishment during later Buddhist times.

During this time, several waves of migration from the north, including the earlier Gojoseon, Buyeo, and the later Goguryeo, overtook and integrated with existing populations and stimulated cultural and political developments. A sharp break in burial styles is found around the later 3rd century. 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, earlier burials were systematically destroyed. In the early 1990s, a royal tomb complex was unearthed in Daeseong-dong, Kimhae, attributed to Keumgwan Gaya but apparently used since Byeonhan times.

After Geumgwan Kaya capitulated to shilla in 532, the royal house was accepted into the Silla aristocracy and given the rank of "true bone," the second-highest level of the Silla Shilla bone rank system. General Kim Yu-shin of Shilla was a descendant of the last Gaya King.

[edit] See also

• History of Korea
• List of Korean monarchs
• Gaya confederacy
• List of Korea-related topics

[edit] References

• Cheol, S.K. (2000). Relations between Kaya and Wa in the third to fourth centuries AD. Journal of East Asian Archeology 2(3-4), 112-122.
• Il,yeon. Garak-gukgi chronicles, Samgukyusa