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Kushan Empire
The Kushan Empire (30-375) was an empire in South Asia originally formed in the early 1st century CE under Kujula Kadphises in the territories of ancient Bactria around the Oxus River (Amu Darya), and later based near Kabul, Afghanistan. The Kushans spread from the Kabul River Valley to defeat other Central Asian tribes that had previously conquered parts of the northern central Iranian Plateau once ruled by the Parthians, and reached their peak under the Buddhist emperor Kanishka (127-151), whose realm stretched from Turfan in the Tarim Basin to Pataliputra on the Gangetic Plain.The Kushan dynasty had diplomatic contacts with the Roman Empire, Sassanid Persia and Han China. The Kushan control fragmented into semi-independent kingdoms in the 3rd century CE, which fell to the Sassanians who targeted from the west. In the fourth century, the Guptas, an Indian dynasty also pressed from the east.
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