Kangju

Kangju (; Eastern Han Chinese: kʰɑŋ-kɨɑ < *khâŋ-ka (c. 140 BCE)) was the Chinese name of a kingdom in Central Asia during the first half of the first millennium CE. The name Kangju is now generally regarded as a variant or mutated form of the name Sogdiana. According to contemporaneous Chinese sources, Kangju was the second most powerful state in Transoxiana, after the Yuezhi. Its people, known in Chinese as the Kāng (康), were evidently of Indo-European origins, spoke an Eastern Iranian language, and had a semi-nomadic way of life. The Sogdians may have been the same people as those of Kangju

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Country.common_name: Kangju
Country.conventional_long_name: Kangju
Country.status: Independent state
Country.era: Late Antiquity
Country.capital: Kangu
Country.common_languages: Sogdian language
Country.year_start: 1st century BCE (?)
Country.year_end: 5th century CE
Country.symbol_type: Tamga of the Kangju
Country.image_map: Territory of the Kangju in 200 CE.jpg
Country.image_map_caption: The approximate territory of the Kangju c. 200 CE.
Country.leader1: Vanvan of Chach
Country.today: UzbekistanTajikistan

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described by source: New Book of Tang

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Die Kangju (chinesisch 康居, Pinyin Kāngjū, je nach Quelle Kang-gü, K'ang-kü, Kangar, Kängäras, Kanglï, Kangārāyē) bildeten ein nomadisches Reich zwischen Aralsee und Tianshan bzw. Balchaschsee. Ihre Ethnizität wurde ursprünglich als türkisch angenommen, obwohl neuere Gelehrte die Kangju als iranisch betrachten oder sogar zu einem tocharischen Ursprung neigen. Wirkliche Kenntnisse über die Ethnizität bestehen nicht, archäologische Befunde weisen allerdings darauf hin, dass Nomaden mit einer Kultur von sarmatischem Typus in größerer Zahl auch in den Bewässerungsoasen Transoxaniens präsent waren.

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