kingdom of margiana
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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
Kingdom of Margiana
Kingdom of Margiana (Parthia)
Kingdom of Margiana (Sasanids)
Establishment
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.
Chronology
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Were a series of Wars between Rome (first the Roman Republic then the Roman Empire and finally the Eastern Roman Empire) and Persia (the Parthian Empire, and then its successor, the Sasanian Empire). The wars were ended by the early Muslim conquests, which led to the fall of the Sasanian Empire and huge territorial losses for the Byzantine Empire.
1.1.Sasanian Campaign of Odaenathus
Was a military campaign by Palmyrene King Odaenathus against the Sasanian Empire.
January 261: Margiana was formally annexed by Sasanian ruler Shapur I in c. 260 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 101: Kushan emperor Vima Kadphises (c. 95 - c. 127) conquers territories in Bactria.
January 201: At the onset of the 3rd century AD, Margiana had been restored as a vassal of the Parthian Empire, but continued to exist as a "virtually independent state".
April 224: After the Sasanian victory over the last Parthian king at the Battle of Hormozdgān in 224 AD, Margiana, ruled by a certain king Ardashir, submitted to Sasanian king Ardashir V and accepted vassalage.
January 226: The Sasanians captured the provinces of Sogdiana, Bactria and Gandhara from the Kushans in 225 AD. The Sasanians established governors in the area, who minted their own coinage and took the title of Kushanshas, i.e. "Kings of the Kushans".
Disestablishment
January 261: Margiana was formally annexed by Sasanian ruler Shapur I in c. 260 AD.
