- (/xwəˈræzəm/; Old Persian: Hwârazmiya; Persian: خوارزم, Xwârazm or Xârazm) or
Chorasmia (/kəˈræzmiə/) is a
large oasis region on the Amu
Darya river delta in...
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Chorasmia (Old Persian: 𐎢𐎺𐎠𐎼𐏀𐎷𐎡𐎹 hUvārazmiya, 𐎢𐎺𐎠𐎼𐏀𐎷𐎡𐏁 hUvārazmiš) was a
satrapy of the
Achaemenid Empire in Persia.
Chorasmia had become...
- Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan, was an
ancient palace city and the
capital of in
Chorasmia in the 2nd/3rd
century CE,
where wall paintings,
coins and
archives were...
- lapis-lazuli and carnelian ... was
brought from Sogdiana. The
turquoise from
Chorasmia, the
silver and
ebony from Egypt, the
ornamentation from Ionia, the ivory...
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related to Sogdian. The
language was
spoken in the area of
Khwarezm (
Chorasmia),
centered in the
lower Amu
Darya south of the Aral Sea (the northern...
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Caspian Sea. The Sakā tigraxaudā/M****agetae more
specifically lived around Chorasmia and in the
lowlands of
Central Asia
located to the east of the Caspian...
- The
Chorasmian era was a
calendar era (year numbering) used in
Chorasmia (Khwarazm)
between the 1st and 8th
centuries AD. The
epoch (first year) of the...
- Sakastan, Gorgan, Khorasan, Marw (in
modern Turkmenistan),
Balkh and
Chorasmia. He also
added Bahrain and
Mosul to the S****anid possessions.
Later S****anid...
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other accounts : "We hear of Magi not only in Persia, Parthia, Bactria,
Chorasmia, Aria, Media, and
among the Sakas, but also in non-Iranian
lands like...
- are
apparently based on the same root, the
Iranian farnah), the king of
Chorasmia in
Central Asia
reports Colchis (today's
western Georgia, i.e., the western...
