Ancient and Early Medieval Kingdoms of the Pamir Region of Central Asia: Historical Shughnān and Its Lost Capital
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Taylor & Francis Group
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Milton
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2022
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Englisch
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on transliteration -- Foreword -- Introduction -- A general review of the major sources -- Etymology and nomenclature -- The historical borders of Shughnān with neighbouring kingdoms -- Part I Historical survey of Shughnān -- The earliest habitation of the Pamirs (10,000-2,000 BCE) -- Theories on the ancient peoples and societies of the Pamirs (2,000-1,000 BCE) -- The Kāfirs and the Mak people -- The Sakas/Scythians, Achaemenids, Greeks and Macedonians (6th-2nd centuries BCE) -- The Sakas/Scythians -- The Achaemenids (6th-4th centuries BCE) -- The Greeks and Macedonians (4th-2nd centuries BCE) -- The Yuèzhī, Kushans, Kidarites/Chionites and Hephthalites (2nd century bce-6th century CE) -- The Yuèzhī (2nd-1st centuries BCE) -- The Kushans (1st-3rd centuries CE) -- The Kidarites/Chionites (4th-5th centuries CE) -- The Hephthalites (5th-6th centuries CE) -- The Turkic kaghans (6th-8th centuries CE) -- Xuánzàng's description of Shughnān -- The rise of the Chinese Tang dynasty (7th-8th centuries CE) -- Shughnān during the Chinese-Tibetan confrontation (the first half of the 8th century CE) -- The Abbasids, Ṭāhirids and Sāmānids (8th-10th centuries CE) -- On the names and origins of the earliest kings of Shughnān -- Conclusion to Part I-progress, problems and potential for future research -- Part II The search for the lost capital of Shughnān-the town of Kǔhán -- The passage from the Táng Shū and its Russian, French and German translations -- The search for Kǔhán outside present-day Shughnān -- The Farghāna Valley -- The Zarafshān Valley -- The Alay Valley -- The city of Qunduz -- The Khātan Oasis -- The Darvāz district -- The Ishkāshim district (Wakhān Valley) -- The Ghārān Valley -- The Rūshān district -- The Bartang Valley.
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