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    culture JIN YUEZHI Subeshi Wusun SELEUCID EMPIRE MAURYA EMPIRE HAN DYNASTY XIONGNU PTOLE- MIES MEROË Scythians Sarma- tians The Wusun (/ˈwuːsʌn/ WOO-sun) were...
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    The Wusun Mountains or Ketmen Mountains are a small range in the central part of the Tianshan Mountains. They lie north of the Tekes River valley and...
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  • (Chinese: 江都公主) or the Princess of Wusun (Chinese: 烏孫公主), was a princess of the Han dynasty sent to marry the King of Wusun as marriage alliance. A poem believed...
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  • leader of the Wusun kingdom as part of the Western Han (206 BC-9 AD) Chinese policy of heqin. Yuan Hong as Weng Gui, a royal in the Wusun kingdom, brother...
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    (Iranian [Saka] and Tokharian), Yeniseic, Uralic and other populations. Wusun elements, like most steppe polities of an ethno-linguistic mix, may have...
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  • Wūjiē (烏揭), whom Zuev believed to have been an offshoot of the Yuezhi or Wusun; the Xījiē (奚結), a Tiele tribe. the Augaloi of the Transoxiana region beyond...
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    displaced elements of the Sakas. They were driven from the Ili Valley by the Wusun and migrated southward to Sogdia and later settled in Bactria. The Greater...
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    other group was the Vedic people. Christopher I. Beckwith suggests that the Wusun, an Indo-European Caucasoid people of Inner Asia in antiquity, were also...
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    Prehistory Saka Kangju Wusun Huns Early history Tele Rouran Khaganate Göktürks Kangar union Kimek Khanate Karluks Oghuz Yabgu State Xueyantuo Khaganate...
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  • conflict This section contains list of wars involving Xianbei, Wuhuan, Wusun and other Mongol tribes. This section contains list of wars involving Rouran...
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    000 to aid the Wusun against the Xiongnu. The majority of the forces failed to find any Xiongnu, but Chang Hui successfully aided the Wusun in defeating...
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    the Qin dynasty (221–206 BCE), the Yuezhi overcame previous settlers, the Wusun and Qiang, occupying the western Hexi Corridor. Later, the newly risen Xiongnu...
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  • emperor's daughters. After his Chinese campaign, Modu forced the Yuezhi and the Wusun to become vassals of the Xiongnu. In 195 BCE, Lu Wan King of Yan, fled to...
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  • Beckwith the Wusun, an Indo-European Caucasian people of Inner Asia in antiquity, were also of Indo-Aryan origin. From the Chinese term Wusun, Beckwith reconstructs...
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    Ruicheng, Dong; Weijan, Gong, eds. (1999). Spectacular China. Translated by Wusun, Lin; Zhongping, Wu. Cologne: Könemann. p. 22. ISBN 978-3-8290-1077-1. Stefon...
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    attacked the Wusun in a punitive campaign and the Wusun monarch requested military support from the Han empire. In 72 BC, the joint forces of the Wusun and Han...
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    Indo-Iranians Iron Age Indo-Aryans Indo-Aryans Iranians Iranians East Asia Wusun Yuezhi Europe Celts Gauls Celtiberians Insular Celts Cimmerians Hellenic...
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  • (Chinese: 刘解忧), was a Chinese princess sent to marry the leader of the Wusun kingdom as part of the Western Han Chinese policy of heqin. As the granddaughter...
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    far-off lands, his efforts did eventually result in trade mission to the Wusun people in 119 BC which led to trade between China and Persia. On his mission...
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    from one of the many Eastern Iranian tribal groups, such as the Saka and Wusun. Jonathan Ratcliffe supports this theory citing numerous academics that...
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    Afanasievo Indo-Iranians Scythia Tungusic Mohe Tocharians Qiang Donghu Yuezhi Wusun Xiongnu Huns Hunas Xionites Iranian Huns Hephthalites Proto-Mongols Wuhuan...
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  • European and Chinese sources including the: Yuezhi, Tocharians, Issedones/Wusun and/or Alans. The classical European sources relating to the Asii are brief...
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    century BCE Chinese sources, Kangju lay north of the Dayuan and west of the Wusun, bordering the Yuezhi in the south. Their territory covered the region of...
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    (Iranian [Saka] and Tokharian), Yeniseic, Uralic and other populations. Wusun elements, like most steppe polities of an ethno-linguistic mix, may have...
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    contemporary of Khushnavaz (fl. 484). In response to the migration of the Wusun (who were hard-pressed by the Rouran) from Zhetysu to the Pamir region,...
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    Ruicheng, Dong; Weijan, Gong, eds. (1999). Spectacular China. Translated by Wusun, Lin; Zhongping, Wu. Cologne: Könemann. p. 101. ISBN 9783829010771. Barker...
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    Beckwith the Wusun, an Indo-European Caucasian people of Inner Asia in antiquity, were also of Indo-Aryan origin. From the Chinese term Wusun, Beckwith reconstructs...
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    Indo-Iranians Iron Age Indo-Aryans Indo-Aryans Iranians Iranians East Asia Wusun Yuezhi Europe Celts Gauls Celtiberians Insular Celts Cimmerians Hellenic...
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    with Kangju to conquer Wusun, a traditional enemy of Kangju. They repeatedly inflicted heavy victory appon victory against the Wusun over the course several...
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    Indo-Iranians Iron Age Indo-Aryans Indo-Aryans Iranians Iranians East Asia Wusun Yuezhi Europe Celts Gauls Celtiberians Insular Celts Cimmerians Hellenic...
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