Gaya confederacy

Gaya 加倻 (Hanja) 가야 (Hangul)
42–562
Map showing the approximate location of selected Gaya polities.
Common languages	Gaya
Religion	Buddhism, Shamanism
Government	Confederation
• 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 (Korean: 가야; 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. Geumgwan Gaya, the ruling state of the confederacy, was conquered in 532, but Daegaya only fell in 562. 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]