Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom

The Kushano-Sasanian Kingdom, also called the Indo-Sasanian Kingdom, was a polity established by the Sasanian Empire in Bactria during the third and fourth centuries. After a series of wars around 225, the Sasanians took Sogdia, Bactria and Gandhara from the declining Kushan Empire, and the local Sasanian governors adopted the title Kushanshah, king of the Kushans, minting their own coins. The kingdom is sometimes regarded as a sub-kingdom within the Sasanian Empire. Its coins were struck at Kabul, Balkh, Herat and Merv, which shows how far its authority reached, and its eastern limit appears to have been Gandhara; almost no Kushano-Sasanian coinage has been found at Taxila beyond the Indus. Hormizd I Kushanshah rebelled against the Sasanian emperor Bahram II in the 270s, even issuing coins as king of kings of the Kushans, but the revolt failed. Around 325 Shapur II took direct charge of the southern part of the territory while the Kushanshahs kept the north. Between 360 and 370 the Kidarites seized most of their lands, and the remnant was absorbed into the Sasanian Empire proper.