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The Kangju were in frequent struggles with the Wusun, during which they in the mid 1st century BCE allied themselves with the northern Xiongnu. The Kangju ruler gave his daughter in marriage to the northern Xiongnu ruler Zhizhi, while the Kangju king married the daughter of the Xiongnu ruler. The
1125:. From the beginning of the Christian era "catacomb graves" (in shaft and chamber tombs) became widespread. This is seen from the burials of the Kaunchi and Dzhun cultures of the 1st to the 4th centuries CE, which are generally accepted as having belonged to the Kangju. The Kangju regarded the 1132:
References from written sources and archaeological finds show that the Kangju reached a considerable level of agricultural sophistication. Much of the population consisted of a sedentary farming population. Wide canals from the Kangju period have been discovered, with the land area under
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says in 94 CE that the Yuezhi were arranging a marriage of their king with a Kangju princess. The Chinese then sent "considerable presents of silks" to the Yuezhi successfully gaining their help in pressuring the Kangju to stop supporting the king of
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Settlements of the Kaunchi culture were typically located in proximity to water and usually have monumental oval buildings in the center, at times with a defensive wall. The largest settlement was a 150 hectare city known apparently as Kang
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to the Han court. Nevertheless, the Kangju continued to send embassies to the Han court and pursued an independent policy, which they were able to maintain until the 3rd century CE. Evidence of Kangju independence can be seen in the
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can mean: 'seat', 'central place of activity or authority; 'to settle down,' 'residence,' or 'to occupy (militarily).'... The term, therefore, could simply mean "the abode of the Kang," or "territory occupied by the Kang." ... As
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tribes whose customs were very similar to those of the Yuezhi. Kangju burials of the early period have been excavated at Berk-kara and Tamdî, in which the dead were placed in pit-graves, often covered with logs, under
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populations. Although their territory was small, the fertility of the land and their sophisticated civilization enabled the Kangju to maintain a large population, becoming a major military power.
940:, their western neighbors. The westward expansion of the Kangju obliged many of the Sarmatians to migrate further west, and it may therefore be concluded that the Kangju played a major in the 847:
at Beitian). The people are nomads and their customs are generally similar to those of the people of Kangju. The country has over 100,000 archer warriors, and borders a great shoreless lake .
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mounds. These graves often contain hand-made pots, iron swords, arrow-heads and jewellery. The burials show that the traditional culture of the Kangju resembled characteristics of the
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states that Kangju was among a number of countries that "had existed previously and neither grown nor shrunk." The Kangju subsequently declined. Around 270 CE they were subdued by the
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archaeologists as the "Kaunchi Culture", dating from the 2nd century BCE to the early 8th century CE, and centred on the middle course of the Syr Darya and its tributaries: the
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Xiongnu and Kangju were initially successful, besieging the Wusun in 42 BCE. The Han however intervened, defeating and killing the northern Xiongnu ruler in at Talas in 36 BCE (
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of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya being four times greater than today. The irrigation systems of Central Asia reached their highest levels of development under the Kangju-
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Genetic makeup of Iron Age Central Asian Scythians. The three main ancestry components are shown in green, red and violet representing the ancestries maximized in
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The people predominantly practiced cattle husbandry and nonirrigated agriculture (grain cultures of millet, barley, wheat, and rice, cotton, melons, and fruits).
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The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West. J. P. Mallory and Victor H. Mair. Thames & Hudson. London. (2000),
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region along Syr Darya to the south of Tashkent. The Kaunchi culture significantly impacted the archeological cultures in the vast territories of the
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China in Central Asia: The Early Stage: 125 BC - AD 23 ; an Annotated Transl. of Chapters 61 and 96 of the History of the Former Han Dynasty
494: 1248:(large bowls for water and produce), pots, pitchers, and cups adorned with ram's head on the handles. In the 1st century CE ceramics made on a 2475: 2381: 1821: 2450:) has: " was also transmitted to China by Manichaeans in the 8th century from the country of Kang (康) in Central Asia." (translation after 833:奄蔡 (literally "vast steppe"), which lay north-west of the Kangju. The people of Yancai were said to resemble the Kangju in their customs: 3466: 3421: 1941: 1298:. They complement the existing Chinese historical records about Kangju. Sims-Williams also assigned a likely date to these inscriptions. 488:
and Wusun respectively. Chinese sources state that the Kangju were tributiaries of the Yuezhi in the south and the Xiongnu in the east.
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Y. A. Zadneprovskiy suggests that the Kangju subjection of Yancai occurred in the 1st century BCE. Yancai is identified with the
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It is not clear whether the Chinese name 康居 Kangju was intended to transcribe an ethnic name, or to be descriptive, or both. 居
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According to John E. Hill, a historian specialising in ancient Central Asia, "Kangju (W-G: K'ang-chü) 康居" was in or near the "
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Some important inscriptions were discovered recently that provide information about Kangju and its contacts with China.
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History of Civilizations of Central Asia: The Development of Sedentary and Nomadic Civilizations, 700 B. C. to A. D. 250
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History of Civilizations of Central Asia: The Development of Sedentary and Nomadic Civilizations, 700 B. C. to A. D. 250
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History of Civilizations of Central Asia: The Development of Sedentary and Nomadic Civilizations, 700 B. C. to A. D. 250
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Schuessler, Axel (2014) "Phonological Notes on Hàn Period Transcriptions of Foreign Names and Words" in Studies in
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Zadneprovskiy, Y. A. (1 January 1994). "The Nomads of Northern Central Asia After The Invasion of Alexander". In
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In 101 BCE, the Kangju allied themselves with the Dayuan, helping them preserve their independence against the
411: 207: 2734:, Supplementary Table 2, Rows 81-82, 84, 120, 128, 131, Individuals DA121, DA 123, DA125, DA206, DA226, DA229. 1260:'s head during the late 3rd and early 4th centuries. At that period weapons started appearing in the kurgans. 1059:, Temple of the Oxus, 1st century BCE- 1st century CE. The design is comparable to the hunting scenes of the 1758: 1747: 1722: 1713: 1588: 1505: 1484: 296: 1795: 1440: 1295: 3062:
Mukhamedjanov, A. R. (1 January 1994). "Economy and Social System in Central Asia in the Kushan Age". In
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Genetic proximity of Eastern Indo-Europeans: the Wusun had great genetic proximity with the Kangju, the
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and founded in the 1st century CE. Kang had a square layout, encircled by a wall with inner passages.
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in May 2018 examined the remains of 6 Kangju buried between ca. 200 CE and 300 CE. The 2 samples of
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Betts, Alison; Vicziany, Marika; Jia, Peter Weiming; Castro, Angelo Andrea Di (19 December 2019).
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A set of Sogdian inscriptions discovered by A. N. Podushkin in his excavations at Kultobe in
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Bathrobe's Days of the Week in Chinese, Japanese & Vietnamese, plus Mongolian and Buryat
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Kangju coin: obverse: ruler Wanunkhur of Chach; reverse: Kangju tamga. 3rd-6th centuries CE
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History of Civilizations of Central Asia: The crossroads of civilizations, A.D. 250 to 750
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Through the Jade Gate - China to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes 1st to 2nd Centuries CE
2647: 2315: 242:, Beitian – the summer capital of Kangju – was in or near modern metropolitan Tashkent.) 151: 2891: 2800: 2684: 1352: 3179: 3148: 2817: 2784: 2709: 2668: 2311: 1621: 1392: 1388: 1205: 1056: 963: 630: 617: 529: 372: 339: 79: 3396://Works of Khorezm Archeological & Ethnographic Expedition, Vol 17, Moscow, 1971 ( 2154: 2101: 1162:
Reconstruction of a Kangju woman, 2nd century BCE-4th century CE (), by archaeologist
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Countries described in Zhang Qian's report. Visited countries are highlighted in blue.
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who visited the area c. 128 BCE, whose travels are documented in Chapter 123 of the
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Commentationes Iranicae. Vladimiro F. Aaron Livschits Nonagenario Donum Natalicium
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The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC
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A 2021 study reconstructed the genetic profile of the Kangju as derived from the
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describes the way of life of the Kangju elite. Its ruler spent his winter in the
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Kyzlasov, L. R. (1 January 1996). "Northern Nomads". In Litvinsky, B. A. (ed.).
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Chinese and Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Dialect, Phonology, Transcription and Text
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rivers, with the core territory along the middle Syr Darya. Since historians of
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The Cultures of Ancient Xinjiang, Western China: Crossroads of the Silk Roads
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A dozen wooden slips with Chinese writing were found at the Xuanquan site in
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may have been the same people as those of Kangju and closely related to the
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dynasties. In the 8th century, some of them seem to have been adherents of
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issued in the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE, during which they issued their own
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do not mention the existence of any political power in the area except the
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Tang China And The Collapse Of The Uighur Empire: A Documentary History
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chapter 221b, p. 1, translated (into French) by Édouard Chavannes in
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who had migrated westward into Sogdia and established themselves in
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is now generally regarded as a variant or mutated form of the name
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Materials typical of the culture are typical hand-formed pottery:
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New Evidence from Dunhuang, China and Central Asia for the Kangju
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headquarters, which was a seven days' journey away on horseback.
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Ethnic group mentioned in Chinese history; probably the Sogdians
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Kangju was later known as the State of Kang (康国) during the
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Kangju was mentioned by the Chinese traveller and diplomat
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Narasimhan, Vagheesh M.; et al. (September 6, 2019).
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Archaeological evidence suggests that the Kangju spoke an
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and was in fact superior to those fully developed in the
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in the south. Their territory covered the region of the
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The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition, 1970-1979 (
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Battle scenes between "Kangju" Saka warriors, from the
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The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia
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has however suggested that the Kangju could have been
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and seems here to have expanded its territory to the
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Kaunchi-Tepe (excavations of 1935), Tashkent, 1940 (
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have noted phonetic similarities between Kangju and
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The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia, Volume 1
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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An Introduction to the History of the Turkic People
2585: 2583: 2306: 2304: 2291: 2289: 172:(c. 140 BCE)) was the Chinese name of a kingdom in 113: 99: 89: 75: 65: 55: 47: 23: 2637:http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/archeology-v 924:records. Scholars have connected name Alanliao to 861:in which it controlled “five lesser kings” (小王五). 42:The approximate territory of the Kangju c. 200 CE. 3018:. CreateSpace, North Charleston, South Carolina. 2955:. A.F.P. Hulsewé, with an Introd. by M.A.N.Loewe. 2758: 829:Qian also visited a land known to the Chinese as 2783:Gnecchi-Ruscone, Guido Alberto (26 March 2021). 2538: 2155:"The consonantal system of Old Chinese. Part II" 2044: 2042: 2040: 2038: 2036: 2034: 2032: 2030: 2028: 2026: 2024: 1458:for 90%, with the rest (10%) being derived from 1256:'s head motif at first common was replaced by a 2770: 2743: 2731: 2235: 2022: 2020: 2018: 2016: 2014: 2012: 2010: 2008: 2006: 2004: 1443:(WSHs) of the Late Bronze Age who admixed with 1399:extracted belonged to the maternal haplogroups 1387:extracted belonged to the paternal haplogroups 1086:people, and are generally held to have been an 3270:Records of the Great Historian, Han Dynasty II 1263:Kaunchi-type sites apparently spread from the 2627: 2625: 2623: 2589: 2574: 2295: 2048: 1942: 1822: 1196:Kangju appears to be a civilisation known to 8: 2868:Damgaard, P. B.; et al. (May 9, 2018). 2470:. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. p. 105. 1112:The ruling elite of the Kangju consisted of 275:dynasties, refer to Kangju as the State of 3383:Yerkurgan (stratigraphy and periodization) 2349:. Paris: Louvre Editions. pp. 42–47. 2200:"On *p- and Other Proto-Turkic Consonants" 2086: 2084: 1949: 1935: 1840: 1829: 1815: 1783: 1718: 1593: 1510: 1469: 843:(832 km) northwest of Kangju (centered on 387:mentioned in the Orkhon inscriptions, the 210:, and had a semi-nomadic way of life. The 36: 20: 3197:An Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese 3178: 2907: 2858: 2816: 2708: 1974:For further etymology, see Blažek (2022). 362:word meaning "stone", and compares it to 3246:, 12 (No. 2) 2001, p. 261-292. See 2490: 2428: 870: 3447:Archaeological cultures of Central Asia 2999:The Peoples of the West from the Weilüe 2419:Hill (2015), Vol. I, note 2.15, p. 175. 2138:Documents sur les tou-kiue occidentaux 2102:"The Consonantal System of Old Chinese" 2090:Hill (2015), Vol. 1, note 2.17, p. 183. 1987: 1967: 1854: 1843: 1746: 1721: 1483: 1472: 1449:Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex 1294:; they were analyzed and deciphered by 993:which was similar to that of Khwarezm. 322:). Pulleyblank also suggested that the 156: 2606:. Paris: Louvre Editions. p. 56. 2247: 2220: 2186: 2075: 218:, or other Iranian groups such as the 196:. Its people, known in Chinese as the 3394:Ceramics of lower and middle Syrdarya 2860:10.15388/Baltistikos_platybese.2022.3 2514: 2502: 2060: 1234:burials of a catacomb type with long 996:The biography of the Chinese General 98: 88: 84: 7: 3009:Draft annotated English translation. 2962:(1 January 1994). "Introcution". In 2526: 342:. Ünal (2022) instead reconstructs * 1230:The settlements were surrounded by 1075:of Beitian, and his summers at his 295:). By that time it was part of the 2604:Splendeurs des oasis d'Ouzbékistan 2347:Splendeurs des oasis d'Ouzbékistan 1368:Hunter Gatherers from West Siberia 1168:Central State Museum of Kazakhstan 414:, which was probably identical to 267:Later Chinese sources, during the 31:1st century BCE (?)–5th century CE 14: 3252:de la Vaissière, Étienne (2013). 2316:"The Yuezhi Migration and Sogdia" 1313:Andronovo culture § Genetics 1309:Sintashta culture § Genetics 913:), were all dependent on Kangju. 794:The Kangju received the visit of 436:sources, Kangju lay north of the 350:of Chinese transcription 康居 EHC * 302:Pulleyblank linked Kangju to the 3462:Former countries in Central Asia 1918: 1865: 1494: 1351: 1321: 932:, paid tribute to the Kangju in 493: 472:following the withdrawal of the 3381:Isamiddin M.,Suleymanov R.Kh., 2944:. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. 2370:Drompp, Michael Robert (2005). 405:Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus 3302:University of California Press 2851:Vilnius University Open Series 2100:Pulleyblank, Edwin G. (1963). 1082:The Kangju are regarded as an 391:in Transcaucasia, the city of 292: 284: 146: 1: 3199:. University of Hawaii Press. 2326:(Ēran ud Anērān). Transoxiana 2140:, pp. 132-147. Paris. (1900). 1377:A genetic study published in 1184:armour with neck-guard, from 432:According to 2nd century BCE 399:tribes collectively known as 238:and Sogdiana". 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The approximate territory of the Kangju c. 200 CE.
Kangu
Sogdian language
Late Antiquity
Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Chinese
pinyin
Wade–Giles
Eastern Han Chinese
Central Asia
first millennium
Sogdiana
Transoxiana
Yuezhi
Indo-European origins
Eastern Iranian language
Sogdians
Sakas
Asii
Talas basin
Tashkent
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Sui
Tang
simplified Chinese
traditional Chinese
Göktürk Khaganate
Tocharian A

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