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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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]...

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...

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

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...

and then advanced on Kangju. Several thousand Kangju attacked them as they were settling in and took their supplies. When the Kangju attacked again, the...

Scythia Saka Wusun Kangju Kingdom Huns...

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

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

AKSUM KUCHA Tesinsky WUSUN Khotan LOULAN Ordos culture JIN DONGHU YUEZHI KANGJU Dinglings Sarmatians SELEU- CIDS PTOLE- MIES PARTHIAN EMPIRE SUNGAS SATAVA-...

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...

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...

Nomads Nomadic Empire Siberia Central Asia Bactria Bactria–Margiana Sogdia/Kangju Greco-Bactrian Kingdom Yavana Kingdom Kushan Empire Badakhshan Transoxiana...

Nomads Nomadic Empire Siberia Central Asia Bactria Bactria–Margiana Sogdia/Kangju Greco-Bactrian Kingdom Yavana Kingdom Kushan Empire Badakhshan Transoxiana...

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

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

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 Dayuan is said to have been an ally with the neighbouring tribes of Kangju (probably Sodgia). The Chinese also record the name of the king of Dayuan...

the Kangju state of Sogdia.: 247  Although Pulleyblank suggested that they might have been Tocharian in origin, most scholars believe that Kangju was...

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...

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