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ID: 6003237
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6003237
Record Type:
administrative
Kushan Empire (former nation/state/empire)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 42 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.7000
decimal degrees
Long: 067 18 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 67.3000
decimal degrees
Note:
Territories ruled by the Kushan dynasty from the 1st-3rd centuries CE The empire covered parts of present-day northern India, Afghanistan, and Central Asia.
Names:
Kushan Empire
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Kushana Empire
(
C
,
V
)
קושאן
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Kushan (Empire)
(
H
,
U
,
English-P
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Kushan Empire
(former nation/state/empire) (
P
)
Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (
preferred
,
C
)
empire (
H
)
inhabited place (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
קושאן..........
[
IMJ
]
..............
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Kushana Empire..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Art in the Kushana Empire (1984)
Kushan Empire..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
"Kushan dynasty" accessed 14 July 2017
..........................
Runion, History of Afghanistan (2017)
47
..........................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
Kushan (Empire)..........
[
IMJ Preferred
]
.............................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Subject:
.....
[
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
"Kushan dynasty" accessed 14 July 2017
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