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Sogdia or Sogdiana was an ancient Iranian civilization between the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, and in present-day Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Sogdiana was also a province of the Achaemenid Empire, and listed on the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great.
Jan 8, 2012 · Sogdiana (or Sogdia) is a region in Central Asia between the mighty rivers Iaxartes in the north and Oxus in the south. Its eastern and western limits are more difficult to determine, especially since the toponym Sogdiana covered different areas at different times.
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Who Were the Sogdians, and Why Do They Matter? Meet the Sogdians, an ancient Silk Road people whose major influence on world art, culture, and trade has only in the last fifty years begun to be fully understood.
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Archaeological findings at Pendzhikent and Varakhsha, town principalities in Sogdiana, are evidence that the Sogdians combined the influences of many cultures, including those of the original Sasanian culture, of post-Gupta India, and of China of the Sui and T'ang periods. Dwellings were decorated with wall paintings and carved wood. The paintings ...
The Sogdians spoke an Eastern Iranian language called Sogdian, closely related to Bactrian, another major language of the region in ancient times. Sogdian was written in a variety of scripts, all of them derived from the Aramaic alphabet. Like its close relative the Pahlavi writing system, written Sogdian also contains many logograms or ideograms, ...
An Lushan was a military leader of Turkic and Sogdian origin during the Tang Dynasty in China. He rose to prominence by fighting during the Tang Frontier Wars between 741 and 755. Later, he precipi...
ShakyaTochariansIranian languagesAncient Iranian peoplesThis article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.Babadjan Ghafurov, "Tajiks,"published in USSR, Russia, TajikistanMacLeod, Calum, and Bradley Mayhew. 2002. Uzbekistan the golden road to Samarkand. Hong Kong: Odyssey. ISBN 9622177034 ISBN 9789622177031Frye, Richard Nelson. 1996. The heritage of Central Asia from antiquity to the Turkish expansion. Princeton series on the Middle East. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers. ISBN 1558761101Sogdia or Sogdiana was an ancient Iranian civilization between the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, and in present-day Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Sogdiana was also a province of the Achaemenid Empire, and listed on the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great.
Mar 4, 2011 · Sogdiana, an Iranian-speaking region in Central Asia, stretches from the rivers Āmu Daryā in the south to the Syr Daryā in the north, with its heart in the valleys of the Zarafšān and the Kaška Daryā. But this description, appropriate for the early period, varied over time.
Sogdian Textiles along the Silk Road | The Sogdians. Mariachiara Gasparini. The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads is organized by the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
