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Transoxiana (lit. 'Land
beyond the Oxus', now
called the Amu Darya) is the
Latin name for the
region and
civilization located in
lower Central Asia roughly...
- used in a
loose sense to
include a
wider region that
included most of
Transoxiana (encomp****ing
Bukhara and
Samarqand in present-day Uzbekistan), extended...
- The
Muslim conquest of
Transoxiana, also
called the Arab
conquest of
Transoxiana, was part of the
early Muslim conquests. It
began shortly after the Muslim...
- Renaissance. Born into the
Turkicized Mongol confederation of the
Barlas in
Transoxiana (in modern-day Uzbekistan) in the 1320s,
Timur gained control of the...
- The
Khanate conquered Transoxiana in
Central Asia and
ruled it
independently between 999 and 1089.
Their arrival in
Transoxiana signaled a definitive...
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invasions of
Transoxiana.
After the
Chagatayid Qazan Khan was
killed in 1346, the
Chagatai Khanate underwent a transformation. In the west (
Transoxiana), the...
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dynasty of
Iranian dehqan origin. The
empire was
centred in
Khorasan and
Transoxiana, at its
greatest extent encomp****ing
northeastern Iran and
Central Asia...
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Samarkand and
Khiva eventually became extremely wealthy cities, and at
times Transoxiana (Mawarannahr) was one of the most
influential and
powerful Persian provinces...
- and was used from the Late
Middle Ages in
distinction to
neighbouring Transoxiana. This province,
whose people are
mainly Shia Muslims,
roughly encomp****ed...
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appears in 16th
century literature.
Other names for the
region include:
Transoxiana, Turkestan, and Bukhara. In the 14th
century the
region served as the...
