SOGDIANA

sŏgdēāˈnə, part of the ancient Persian Empire in central Asia between the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers, corresponding to the later emirate of Bukhara and region of Samarkand. Sogdiana, though often a possession of other countries, had its own language, culture, and trading centers. It was a satrapy under Darius I and was later invaded by Alexander the Great.

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Everyman's Concise Encyclopaedia of Russia
Book by S. V. Utechin; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1961
Subjects: Soviet Union--Dictionaries And Encyclopedias
...party or Komsomol tutelage. Sogd, or Sogdiana, ancient name of the region in Central...Inhabited by Iranian-speaking people, Sogdiana was one of the earliest centres of civilization...elements in the Hellenistic culture of Sogdiana was of great importance for the future...
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Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History
Book by Sarah B. Pomeroy, Stanley M. Burstein, Walter Donlan, Jennifer Tolbert Roberts; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C, Hellenism
...regicide. The Struggle for Bactria and Sogdiana 330-327 BC Alexanders ignorance...quickly spread throughout much of Sogdiana and Bactria when he tried to establish a controlled border between Sogdiana and Scythia at the Jaxartes River...
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Persian Art, Parthian and Sassanian Dynasties, 249 B.C.- A.D. 651
Book by Roman Ghirshman, Stuart Gilbert, James Emmons; Golden Press, 1962
...Art. Varakhsha Bukhara Oasis , ancient Sogdiana . Fresco. Warriors mounted on caparisoned...Art. Varakhsha Bukhara Oasis , ancient Sogdiana . Stucco. Ram. 3rd-4th centuries...Art. Varakhsha Bukhara Oasis , ancient Sogdiana . Stucco. Womans Head. 3rd-4th centuries...
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Handbook of Christianity in China - Vol. 1
Book by Nicolas Standaert; Brill, 2001
Subjects: China--Church History, China--Religion, Missions--China--History
...of Aluobens true origins (Persia or Sogdiana), this remains unsolved for the moment...records an embassy from Kangguo bk%% (Sogdiana) on 28 April 635 (Zhengguan 9/4...credit to the hypothesis he arrived from Sogdiana. According to Dauvillier,59 Aluoben...
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Turkism and the Soviets: The Turks of the World and Their Political Objectives
Book by Charles Warren Hostler; G. Allen & Unwin, 1957
Subjects: Pan-Turanianism, Turkic Peoples
...pp. 3 f. 5 Sogdians: the people of Sogdiana, the ancient, civilized country in...Khoresmia Khiva in the west. The capital of Sogdiana -- Marakanda today Samarkand -- was...Kush Mountains in 329 B.C. conquered Sogdiana and Baktria. See Istoria SSSR History...
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journal articles on: Sogdiana  - 10 results

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When Was Central Asia Zoroastrian?
Journal article by Richard Foltz; Mankind Quarterly, Vol. 38, 1998
Subjects: Ancient civilizations, Iran, Religion
...rule for two hundred years, says of Sogdiana that "its people are dualists (thanawiya...there.18 Zorastrianism and Buddhism in Sogdiana It seems the Sogdian king was impressed...assertions about his masters successes in Sogdiana are true, the "converts" may have...
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Alexander the Great-or the Terrible?
Journal article by Brooke Allen; The Hudson Review, Vol. 58, 2005
Subjects: Alexander the Great (356-23 BC), Personal profiles, Public figures
...they neither understood nor valued," and that "There was nothing noble or heroic about Alexanders operations in Bactria and Sogdiana. Wherever his army moved, the countryside was devastated in order to deny the rebels any sort of support. All males of military...
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The Centrality of Central Asia
Journal article by Andre Gunder Frank; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 24, 1992
Subjects: Asia
...from Bactria, which here was wrought. The precious lapis lazuli and camelian, which was wrought here, was brought from Sogdiana. The precious stone turquoise was brought from Chorasmia, which was wrought here. The silver and the ebony were brought...
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Johann Schöner's Globe of 1515: Transcription and Study
Journal article by Chet Van Duzer; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 100, 2010
Subjects: Acquisitions & mergers, Cartography, Libraries, Maps
...Waldseemuiler calls it oxie fons; see Ptolemy 6.12. Oxy m. Waldseemuiler does not name these mountains; from Ptolemy 6.12. Sogdiana. See the Luculentissima f. 50v, where Schoner describes the huge papyrus trees of the region182; Hallberg, LExtreme Orient...
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Histoire Des Marchands Sogdiens
Journal article by Peter B. Golden; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Histoire des marchands sogdiens, vol. 32 (Book)--Book reviews
...Iran (Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 1984): 351-52. 3. See Boris Marshak, Legends, Tales, and Fables in the Art of Sogdiana (New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 2002). 4. See R. N. Frye, The Heritage of Central Asia (Princeton: Markus...
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The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith: Susan Whitfield, Head of the International Dunhuang Project, Introduces a New Exhibition of Treasures of Ancient Central Asia, Opening at the British Library
Magazine article by Susan Whitfield; History Today, Vol. 54, May 2004
Subjects: Ancient history, History, Ancient, Silk Road--Exhibitions, Silk Road--History
...kingdoms. Two thousand miles to their west, the Zoroastrian city-states of Samarkand and Bukhara in the region then known as Sogdiana emerged as the great merchant cities of the Silk Road. A century later there were Sogdian merchant communities in Dunhuang...


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encyclopedia articles on: Sogdiana  - 11 results

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Sogdiana
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SOGDIANA sogdea n , part of the ancient Persian...Samarkand, it was also known as Transoxiana. Sogdiana, though often a possession of other countries...language written in an Aramaic script. Sogdiana was a satrapy under Darius I. Conquered...
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White Huns
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...mentioned by the Chinese, who described them (a.d. 125) as living in Dzungaria. They displaced the Scythians and conquered Sogdiana and Khorasan before 425. They crossed (425) the Syr Darya (Jaxartes) River and invaded Persia. Held off at first by Bahram...
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Uzbekistan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...History Early History Uzbekistan was the site of one of the worlds oldest civilized regions. The ancient Persian province of Sogdiana , it was conquered in the 4th cent. b.c. by Alexander the Great. Turkic nomads entered the area in the 6th cent. a...
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Alexander the Great
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...disliked Alexanders assuming Persian dress and the manner of a despot. Nevertheless Alexander conquered all of Bactria and Sogdiana after hard fighting and then went on from what is today Afghanistan into N India. Some of the princes there received him favorably...
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Samarkand
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...known to the ancient Greeks as Marakanda; ruins of the old settlement remain north of the present city. The chief city of Sogdiana , on the ancient trade route between the Middle East and China, Samarkand was conquered (329 b.c.) by Alexander the Great...
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