Kangju (Chinese: 康居; pinyin: kāngjū; Wade–Giles: K'ang-chü; Eastern Han Chinese: kʰɑŋ-kɨɑ < *khâŋ-ka (c. 140 BCE)) was the Chinese name of a kingdom in...

Kangju Kangri is a mountain in the Karakoram Range of Asia located in the union territory of Ladakh, India. With a summit elevation of 6,725 meters above...

About 44 BC he made a close alliance with the Kangju near Lake Balkhash. Later he quarrelled with the Kangju, killed several hundred of them and forced them...

invaded Bactria in the 2nd century BCE, the Alans were pushed west by the Kangju people (known to Graeco-Roman authors as the Ἰαξάρται Iaxártai in Greek...

Hathi Parbat Indrasan Japfü Jorkanden Kalrayan hills Kalsubai Kang Yatze Kangju Kangri Kinnaur Kailash Kodachadri Kolahoi Peak Kolaribetta Kolukkumalai...

Prehistory Saka Kangju Wusun Huns Early history Tele Rouran Khaganate Göktürks Kangar union Kimek Khanate Karluks Oghuz Yabgu State Xueyantuo Khaganate...

Bactrian country of Daxia (大夏) with its remnants of Greco-Bactrian rule, and Kangju (康居). He also made reports on neighbouring countries that he did not visit...

li [832 km] northwest of Kangju. The people are nomads and their customs are generally similar to those of the people of Kangju. The country has over 100...

alliance with the Kangju he plundered the Wusun. Later he quarreled with the Kangju, killed several hundred of them and forced the Kangju people to build...

wδ'nn'p, mentioned on Kultobe inscriptions as enemies of the Sogdian-speaking Kangju confederation. Wδ'nn'p contains two morphemes n'p "people" and *wδ'n [wiðan]...

Beitian may refer to: Beitian (Kangju), the summer capital of the ancient Kangju kingdom of Central Asia Beitian, Shanxi, a subdistrict of Yuci District...

was known to Chinese scholars as Kangju, which was centered on the Syr Darya (also known as the Kang River). Kangju existed from the 1st century BC until...

Prehistory Saka Kangju Wusun Huns Early history Tele Rouran Khaganate Göktürks Kangar union Kimek Khanate Karluks Oghuz Yabgu State Xueyantuo Khaganate...

Oxus Civilization Scythia Dingling/Tiele Saka Kangju Huns...

Andes, Argentina/Chile Cho Polu 6,735 22,096 Himalayas, Nepal (Khumbu) Kangju Kangri 6,725 22,064 Karakoram, India (Ladakh) Changla 6,721 22,051 Himalayas...

vassal state of Kangju, and was now known as Alanliao (Chinese: 阿蘭聊). Y. A. Zadneprovskiy suggests that the subjugation of Yancai by Kangju occurred in the...

by Ligeti) or Oguz (Baskakov). Hammer-Purgstall classifies the Chinese Kangju and Byzantine Kangar as purely Turkic name variants of the Kangly; however...

nomads Nomadic empire Siberia Central Asia Bactria Bactria–Margiana Sogdia/Kangju Greco-Bactrian kingdom Yavana kingdom Kushan Empire Badakhshan Transoxiana...

information about the various Central Asian kingdoms such as Dayuan, Daxia and Kangju, as well as other farther countries such as Anxi, Tiaozhi, Shendu and Wusun...

*kaŋk- (whence Chinese transcription 康居 EHC *kʰɑŋ-kɨɑ > standard Chinese Kāngjū), which possibly meant "stone". Against Harold Walter Bailey's and Edwin...

nomads Nomadic empire Siberia Central Asia Bactria Bactria–Margiana Sogdia/Kangju Greco-Bactrian kingdom Yavana kingdom Kushan Empire Badakhshan Transoxiana...

near the foothills of the Golestan Mountains. In ancient times, this area contained Beitian, probably the summer "capital" of the Kangju confederacy....

nomads Nomadic empire Siberia Central Asia Bactria Bactria–Margiana Sogdia/Kangju Greco-Bactrian kingdom Yavana kingdom Kushan Empire Badakhshan Transoxiana...

he made a major mistake, and he allianced with Kangju to conquer Wusun, a traditional enemy of Kangju. They repeatedly inflicted heavy victory appon victory...

through about 1400 CE, with the efforts of monks such as Yuezhi, Anxi, Kangju, Tianzhu, Yan Fodiao, Faxian, Xuanzang and Yijing. Further, as the Chinese...

Bactrian country of Daxia with its remnants of Greco-Bactrian rule, and Kangju. He also made reports on neighbouring countries that he did not visit, such...

fragments have been found at Kultobe in Kazakhstan. They date back to the Kangju culture, are significantly earlier than the 4th century A.D. and showcase...

of Southern Kazakhstan, and on the cultures of the Sakas, Sarmatians and Kangju in the 4th century BCE – 4th century CE. He has published four monographs...

the king of Yucheng decided to flee to Kangju, causing Yucheng to surrender shortly thereafter. When Kangju received news of Dayuan's defeat, they handed...

with many surrounding civilizations. Zhang encountered Dayuan (Fergana), Kangju (Sogdiana), and Daxia (Bactria, formerly the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom); he...