Editing Saka (section)

=== Indo-Scythians ===
{{Main|Indo-Scythians}}
[[File:Saka warrior Termez Achaeological Museum.jpg|thumb|upright|Head of a Saka warrior, as a defeated enemy of the [[Yuezhi]], from [[Khalchayan]], northern [[Bactria]], 1st century BC.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Abdullaev |first1=Kazim |title=Nomad Migration in Central Asia (in After Alexander: Central Asia before Islam) |journal=Proceedings of the British Academy |date=2007 |volume=133 |pages=87–98 |url=https://www.academia.edu/6864202}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://iranicaonline.org/|title=Welcome to Encyclopaedia Iranica|first=Encyclopaedia Iranica|last=Foundation|website=iranicaonline.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bf/c2/42/bfc242271c38d714044837d179faab53.jpg|title=Also a Saka according to this source}}</ref>]]
The region in modern Afghanistan and Iran where the Saka moved to became known as "land of the Saka" or [[Sakastan]].{{sfn|Bailey|1983}} This is attested in a contemporary [[Kharosthi]] inscription found on the [[Mathura lion capital]] belonging to the Saka kingdom of the [[Indo-Scythians]] (200 BC – 400 AD) in [[northern India]],{{sfn|Bailey|1983}} roughly the same time the Chinese record that the Saka had invaded and settled the country of ''Jibin'' 罽賓 (i.e. [[Kashmir]], of modern-day India and Pakistan).<ref name="theobald 2011 saka" /> In the Persian language of contemporary Iran the territory of Drangiana was called Sakastāna, in Armenian as Sakastan, with similar equivalents in Pahlavi, Greek, Sogdian, Syriac, Arabic, and the [[Middle Persian]] tongue used in [[Turfan]], Xinjiang, China.{{sfn|Bailey|1983}} The Sakas also captured [[Gandhara]] and [[Taxila]], and migrated to [[North India]].<ref name="Sulimirski 1970 113–114">{{cite book |title=The Sarmatians |volume=73 |series=Ancient peoples and places |pages=113–114 |last=Sulimirski |first=Tadeusz |author-link=Tadeusz Sulimirski |publisher=Praeger |location=New York |year=1970 |isbn=9789080057272 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gdjhuAAACAAJ |quote=The evidence of both the ancient authors and the archaeological remains point to a massive migration of Sacian (Sakas) / Massagetan tribes from the Syr Daria Delta (Central Asia) by the middle of the second century B.C. Some of the Syr Darian tribes; they also invaded North India.}}</ref> The most famous Indo-Scythian king was [[Maues]].<ref name="I_Kushan">{{cite web |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/kushan-dynasty-i-history |title=KUSHAN DYNASTY i. Dynastic History |last=Bivar |first=A. D. H. |website=[[Encyclopædia Iranica]] |access-date=31 August 2018 }}</ref> An Indo-Scythian kingdom was established in [[Mathura]] (200 BC – 400 AD).{{sfn|Bailey|1983}}<ref name="Beckwith85" /> [[Weer Rajendra Rishi]], an Indian linguist, identified linguistic affinities between Indian and Central Asian languages, which further lends credence to the possibility of historical Sakan influence in North India.<ref name="Sulimirski 1970 113–114" /><ref>{{cite book |title= India & Russia: linguistic & cultural affinity |page=95 | last=Rishi |first=Weer Rajendra |author-link=Weer Rajendra Rishi |publisher=Roma |year=1982 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vns_AAAAMAAJ&q=Getae}}</ref> According to historian Michael Mitchiner, the [[Abhira tribe]] were a Saka people cited in the Gunda inscription of the [[Western Satrap]] [[Rudrasimha I]] dated to AD 181.<ref name="Mitchiner1978">{{cite book|last=Mitchiner|first=Michael|title=The ancient & classical world, 600 B.C.-A.D. 650|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zuQLAQAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Hawkins Publications; distributed by B. A. Seaby|isbn=978-0-904173-16-1|page=634}}</ref>

<gallery class="center" widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="3" caption="Later Saka polities">
File:Map_of_the_Indo-Scythians.png|The [[Indo-Scythians]] ruled in northwestern South Asia from circa 100 BC
File:Map_of_the_Northern_Satraps_(Northern_Sakas).jpg|The [[Northern Satraps]] ruled in northern India until their replacement by the Kushans circa 150 AD
File:Map_of_the_Western_Satraps.png|The [[Western Satraps]] was a Saka dynasty which ruled in western India until circa 400 AD 
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