Toscead betweox fadungum "Cuscan Rīce"

Se '''Cuscan Rīce''' (c. [[1st century|1e]]–[[3rd century|3e gēarhundred]]) wæs rīce þæt in his grēatan tīde, ymbe [[105]]–[[250s|250]], legde of [[Tajikistan]], tō [[Caspisc SǣCaspia]] sǣ, tō [[Afghanistan]], tō [[GangesGandis]] dene.

Þes rīce hæfþ se Cuscan folc of [[Yuezhi]] gemacod, þæt cōmon of todæges [[Xinjiang]] in [[Cīna]]n, man þincþ hīe sind cynn tō þǣm [[Toharisc folc|Toharisc folc]]. Hīe hæfdon diplomatic contacts mid [[Rōm]]e, [[Sassanisc]] [[Persisc Rīce|Persea]] and [[Cīna]], and for several centuries were at the center of exchange betweenbetweonum the East and the West.

Se nama ''Cuscan'' ofgengþ of þǣm Cīniscan worde ''Guishuang'' (Ch:貴霜), þe āscrīfeþ ān þāra fīf folca þāra [[Yuezhi]] (Ch:月氏), a loose confederation of [[Indo-European]] peoples speaking versions þǣre [[Tocharian_languages|Tocharian]] sprǣce. TheyHie werewæron theþa easternmosteasternmest Indo-Europeans, who had been living in the arid grasslands of the [[Tarim Basin]] in modern-day [[Xinjiang]], until they were driven west by the [[Xiongnu]] in [[176 BC|176]]–[[160 BC|160 BCE]]. The five Yuezhi tribes are known in Chinese history as Xiūmì (Ch:休密), Guishuang (Ch:貴霜), Shuangmi (Ch:雙靡), Xidun (Ch:肸頓), and Dūmì (Ch:都密).

The Yuezhi reached the Hellenicþæt kingdomCrecisc ofrice [[Greco-Bactria]], in theþǣm [[Bactrian]] territorylandscipe (northernmostnorðernmest Afghanistan and Uzbekistan) aroundymbe [[135 BC|135 BCE]], and displaced the GreekCrecisc dynasties there, who resettled in Indus basin (in present day PakistanPacistan) in the westernwestdæl part of theþæs [[Indo-GreekIndocrecisc Rice|Indocreciscan KingdomRices]].