kangju
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Kangju
Kangju (Han)
Establishment
January 127 BC: Kangju was an ancient kingdom in Central Asia which became for a couple of centuries the second greatest power in Transoxiana after the Yuezhi. Kangju was mentioned by the Chinese traveller and diplomat Zhang Qian who visited the area c. 128 BC.
Chronology
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Was a series of military battles fought between the Han Empire and the nomadic Xiongnu confederation.
January 100 BC: The Han empire brought the state of Kangju into tributary submission between 108 and 101 BC.
January 51: The Kushans returned to Margiana in the 1st century AD and helped the satrap Sanabares declare himself king who ruled from ca. 50 AD.
January 92: Han Dynasty general Ban Chao, with the aid of the Kushan Empire, was able to subdue the regions of Kashgar and Sogdiana.
January 436: A local Iranian dynasty of Sogdian origin ruled the Ushrusana region from an unknown date to 892. The emergence of the state in Ustrushan probably dates back to the 4th century . In 435, Ustrushana is mentioned in Chinese sources as Cao.
January 476: In the second half of the fifth century, the Hephtalites controlled the deserts of Turkmenistan as far as the Caspian Sea and possibly Merv.
Disestablishment
January 501: Like other Central Asian peoples, the Kangju probably became subsumed into the Hephthalites.
