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The '''''Aśvaka''''' ([[Sanskrit language|Sanskrit]]: अश्वक), also known as the '''Ashvakan''', '''Aśvakayana''', or '''Asvayana''' and sometimes [[Latinisation of names|Latinised]] as '''Assacenii''', '''Assacani''', or '''Aspasioi''', were a people who lived in what is now [Suliman mountains] and [Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]]. The region in which they lived was also called ''Aśvaka''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Geography from Ancient Indian Coins & Seals |first=Parmanand |last=Gupta |publisher=Concept Publishing Company |year=1989 |isbn=978-8-17022-248-4 |pages=17–18 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LzHpZ5N5MhcC&pg=PA17}}</ref>
According to some scholars, the name ''Aśvakan'' or ''Aspasioi'' is preserved in the modern ethnonym ''[[Afghan (ethnonym)|Afghan]]'' (historically used for [[Pashtuns]]; also used in ''[[Afghanistan]]''), and the tribal name ''[[Yusufzai|Esapzai]]'' (whose [[Arabization|Arabized]] form is ''Yusufzai''). The [[ethnonym]] '''Afghan''' ([[Pashto language|Pashto]]/[[Persian language|Persian]]: {{lang|
== Etymology ==
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