{"slug": "hindu-kush", "label": "Hindu Kush", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_Kush", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5472", "qid": "Q5472", "description": "mountain range in Afghanistan and Pakistan", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-328, 2015], "span_label": ["329 BCE", "2015 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "india", "label": "India", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "alexander-the-great", "label": "Alexander the Great", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "antiochus-iii-the-great", "label": "Antiochus III the Great", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kabul", "label": "Kabul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "korea", "label": "Korea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tibet", "label": "Tibet", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pakistan", "label": "Pakistan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "afghanistan", "label": "Afghanistan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "buddhism", "label": "Buddhism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "punjab-region", "label": "Punjab region", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "amu-darya", "label": "Amu Darya", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -328, "year_label": "329 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Crossing the Hindu Kush northward, probably over the Khawak Pass, Alexander brings his army, despite food shortages, to Drapsaka. Outflanked, Bessus flees beyond the Oxus river.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356261159#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "329 BC", "revid": 1356261159, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -326, "year_label": "327 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Alexander the Great invades northern India. Recrossing the Hindu Kush, Alexander divides his forces. Half the army with the baggage under Hephaestion and Perdiccas, both cavalry commanders, are sent through the Khyber Pass, while Alexander leads the rest, together with his siege train, through the hills to the north. His advance through Swat and Gandhara is marked by the storming of the almost impregnable pinnacle of Aornos, a few miles west of the Indus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1259124608#Macedonian_Empire", "title": "327 BC", "revid": 1259124608, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonian Empire"}}, {"year": -205, "year_label": "206 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Antiochus III marches across the Hindu Kush into the Kabul valley and renews his friendship with the Indian king Sophagasenus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361853494#Persia", "title": "206 BC", "revid": 1361853494, "section": "Events › By place › Persia"}}, {"year": 528, "year_label": "528 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Hephthalites (White Huns) move from the Hindu Kush into the Punjab region, and eastward across the Ganges Delta, ravaging cities and Buddhist monasteries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340793729#Asia", "title": "528", "revid": 1340793729, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 747, "year_label": "747 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Chinese forces under Gao Xianzhi (a Korean in Tang employ) defeat the Arabs and Tibetans, by rapid military expeditions over the Pamir Mountains and Hindu Kush. About 72 local Indian and Sogdian kingdoms become Tang vassals. Over the next two years he establishes complete control in East Asia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468436#Asia", "title": "AD 747", "revid": 1364468436, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 2015, "year_label": "2015 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "October 26", "text": "October 26 – A magnitude 7.5 earthquake strikes the Hindu Kush region and causes 398 deaths, with 279 in Pakistan, 115 in Afghanistan and 4 in India.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373300271#October", "title": "2015", "revid": 1373300271, "section": "Events › October"}}]}