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Kingdom of Kapisi

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The Kingdom of Kapisi was located in what is now Afghanistan. The kingdom stretched from the Hindu Kush in the north to Bamiyan and Kandahar in the south and west, out as far as Jalalabad District in the east. The kingdom was, for a time, under the Turki Sahi house.

The Kingdom of Kapisi was, in the Chinese chronicles Book of Sui, associated with the Kingdom of Cao.

Around 600 AD, the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang made a pilgrimage to Kapisi, and described there the cultivation of rice and wheat, and a king of the Suli tribe. In his chronicle, he relates that in Kapisi were over 6,000 monks of a heretical sect of the Mahayana school of Buddhism.

At one point, Bagram was the capital of the kingdom, though in the 7th century, the center of power of Kapisi shifted to Kabul.

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Kingdom of Kapisi Wikipedia