Indo-Scythians(59 words)
[German version]
(in Chinese sources Yuèzhī) originally a Central Asian people, which migrated west in the 2nd cent. BC. The I. conquered Graeco-Bactria and later moved to India, where they founded the powerful Kushan dynasty ( Kanishka). Their Indian kingdom is called Indo-Scythia by Ptolemy and others.
Scythians
Karttunen, Klaus (Helsinki)
Bibliography
J. E. van Lohuizen-de Leeuw, The Scythian Period, 1949.
Cite this page
Karttunen, Klaus (Helsinki),
“Indo-Scythians”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 03 October 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e524340>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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