[Buddha-l] A Rough Guide to Kushan History

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> The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: Mar 2005, Vol. 12, No. 5 (230)
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> 11 Mar 2005
>
> A Rough Guide to Kushan History
>
> www.kushan.org, Chesterfield, UK
>
> Self-description: "This site [est. 1999 - ed.] is dedicated to Kushan
Studies,
> from the second century BC to the fourth century AD, and from the eastern
> border of modern Iran through Afghanistan, Pakistan, Northern India, and
into
> the Tarim Basin (Peoples Republic of China), and north into the
> Commonwealth of Independent states."
>
> Site contents * General History; * Further Information; * Topics in Kushan
> History; * Military History; * Chronology; * Glossary; * Bibliography
> (Women in Ancient India, The Date of Kanishka, Sapadbizes); * Sources for
> Kushan History (Strabos Geography, The life of Apollonius of Tyana,
Periplus
> Mari Erythraie, The Shih Chih and the Hou Han Shu).
>
> URL http://www.kushan.org/
>
> Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.kushan.org/
>
> Link reported by: Robert Bracey (robert[use"@"]kushan.org), forwarded by
> h-asia[use"@"]h-net.msu.edu
>
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> Useful
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under
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