It is believed to have been located around 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 end of the Gaya confederacy.
However, there were nine gans: Adogan, Yeodogan, Pidogan, Odogan, Ryusugan, Ryucheongan, Sincheongan, Ocheongan, and Singuigan, and they became chiefs and led the people.
You will hold a handful of soil from the top of the peak and sing a song and dance, then this will be the joy of jumping to meet the Great King."
[1] Twelve hours later, the next day, around dawn, the group gathered again and opened the box, and six eggs turned into boys whose faces were dignified.
[1] Gaya confederacy (42–532 CE), founded by the King Suro, originated from the Byeonhan (also called Pyonhan, Byeon and Byeonjin) tribe, and it had 12 statelets.
[3] Daegaya was an important city state and sea port as part of the Gaya Confederacy, it is associated with the place the Queen Heo had first arrived in Korea from her foreign location.
During this early time in the history of Gaya, several waves of migration from the north, including the earlier-extant Gojoseon, Buyeo, and the Goguryeo, 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.
In the early 1990s, a royal tomb complex was unearthed in Daeseong-dong, Gimhae, attributed to Geumgwan Gaya but apparently used since Byeonhan times.
[7] According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, It is presumed the four countries, Sinunsin (Korean: 臣雲遣支報,[8] Anra (安邪踧支濆), Sinbunhwal (臣離兒不例)[9] and Geumgwan (拘邪秦支廉), had a superior position in the southern peninsula around the 3rd century.