Kingdom of Kapisa
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Was a state located in what is now Afghanistan during the late 1st millennium CE.
Establishment
January 599 BC: The Kingdom of Kapisa was a state located in what is now Afghanistan during the late 1st millennium AD.
Chronology
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Were a series of conquests that were carried out by Alexander III of Macedon (known as Alexander "The Great") from 336 BC to 323 BC. Alexander conquered the Persian Empire and also expanded his kingdom into the Indian Subcontinent.
1.1.Alexander's War in Persia
Were the military campaigns by Alexander the Great King of Macedon in the territories of the Achaemenid Empire.
1.1.1.Campaigns of Alexander the Great against the Achaemenid rebel Satrapies
Were a series of military campaign by Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, in the regions of the Achaemenid Empire that had become de facto independent after the collapse of the Empire.
May 329 BC: Cophen River conquered by Kingdom of Macedonia.
May 329 BC: Kapisa, Alexandria in the Caucasus conquered by Kingdom of Macedonia.
May 329 BC: Ortospana and Kabura conquered by Kingdom of Macedonia.
January 328 BC: Kingdom of Kapisa conquered by Kingdom of Macedonia.
January 328 BC: Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria in Arachosia (modern-day Ghazni, Afghanistan) as part of his conquests in the region.
January 449 BC: The earliest reference to the Kambojas is in the works of Pāṇini, around the 5th century BC. Other pre-Common Era references appear in the Manusmriti (2nd century) and parts of the Mahabharata, both of which described the Kambojas as former kshatriyas (warrior caste) who had degraded through a failure to abide by Brahmanical sacred rituals. Their territories were located beyond Gandhara in present day eastern Afghanistan, where Buddha statues were built during the reign of Ashoka and the 3rd century BC. The Edicts of Ashoka refers to the area under Kamboja control as being independent of the Mauryan empire in which it was situated.
January 601: The Kingdom of Kapisa was a state located in what is now Afghanistan during the late 1st millennium CE. In around 600 CE, the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang made a pilgrimage to Kapisa, and described there the cultivation of rice and wheat, and a king of the Suli tribe.
January 626: In 625, Tong Yabgu, a powerful ruler of the Western Turkic Khaganate, launched an invasion into Tokharistan, an area south of the Oxus River. The Hephtalites, also known as the White Huns, were the principalities that were forced to submit to Tong Yabgu's authority.
January 666: The Turk Shahis or Kabul Shahis were a dynasty of Western Turk, or mixed Western Turk-Hephthalite, origin, that ruled from Kabul and Kapisa to Gandhara in the 7th to 9th centuries CE.
Disestablishment
January 701: Between the 7th and 9th centuries, the Kingdom of Kapisa was ruled by the Turk Shahi house.
