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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Kangju (cinese: 康居) era il nome di un'antica popolazione e del relativo regno in Asia centrale. Si trattava di una federazione nomade la cui origine etnica e linguistica è sconosciuta, che divenne per un paio di secoli la seconda potenza della Transoxiana dopo gli Yuezhi. pensa che l'etnia dei K'ang-chü sia turca, basandosi su studi dei testi, mentre altri studiosi tendono a considerarli iraniani o Tocari.

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