Kangju

The Kangju (Chinese康居, Pinyin kangju, according to sources Kang- gü, K'ang- ku, Kangar, Kängäras, Kangli, Kangārāyē ) were a nomadic empire between the Aral Sea and Lake Balkhash and Tianshan. Their ethnicity was originally assumed to be Turkish, although recent scholars consider the Kangju as Iranian or even tend to Tocharian origin. About the ethnic classification of the Kangju still disagreement.

Transoxiana and Bactria

The Kangju are generally identified with the sovereign domain of Sogde (r ) n, which is due to a decentralized supremacy of Kangju over Transoxiana. The Kangju allied themselves immediately with the Yuezhi, as these 141-129 BC Bactria occupied, and stood still in the first century as an independent junior partner of the Yuezhi - Kushan king from the house in appearance. Bear witness to the descriptions of the wars of the Chinese generals Ban Chao,班超(about 73-94 AD in the Tarim Basin ).

Caucasus

The Kangju subjugated the Alans north of the Aral Sea, which drew mostly westward and toward the Caucasus, where they come into Armenian and Syrian sources again as Kangārāyē in appearance.

Central Asian steppe

In later times, even large parts kiptschakischer strains were referred to by the Chinese as Kao- ku. The self-designation of these strains was Kangli. Three of the medieval Pecheneg groupings ( Javdi - ERTIM, Küerči -CUR, and K'abukšyn - Jula ) were named in Greek sources as Kangar. The Old Turkic inscriptions of Kül - Tigin report in this regard by a Kängäräs - people, a Kang- country and a Kängü - Tarban City. The Kängäräs allied themselves with the Eastern Turks ( T'u - küe ) against the regional Türgesch - rule ( Türgiş ) of the Western Turkish Confederation.

Andras Rona - Tas etymologisiert the name Kangar, in relation to the "color of a horse ", with the petschenegischem word Kongor for " brown", derived from the medieval Turkish qoŋur / qoŋɣur, from Proto -Turkish * Konur ( " red - brown, dark brown ").