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    Transoxiana (redirect from Transoxania)
    Transoxiana or Transoxania ("Land beyond the Oxus") is the Latin name for the region and civilization located in lower Central Asia roughly corresponding...
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  • Jand (also Jend), was a medieval town on the right bank of the lower Jaxartes river in Transoxiana in modern-day Kazakhstan. It was the winter capital...
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    forced Baraq to flee to Transoxania. In 1267, Baraq accepted peace with Kaidu, and relinquished the territory east of Transoxania. Kaidu then coerced Baraq...
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    Ghiyās-ud-dīn Jamshīd Kāshānī) (c. 1380 Kashan, Iran – 22 June 1429 Samarkand, Transoxania) was an astronomer and mathematician during the reign of Tamerlane. Much...
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    negotiate with the invader but joined with him instead and was rewarded with Transoxania. At about this time, his father died and Timur also became chief of the...
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    ancient population of Khwārezm (Khorezm) and Bactria, which formed part of Transoxania (Sogdiana). They were included in the empires of Persia and Alexander...
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    ISBN 978-0-521-88782-3.[permanent dead link] Lange: Greater Persia (including Khwārazm, Transoxania, and Afghanistan)." Sharma, Usha (2004). Cultural and Religious Heritage...
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    ancient population of Khwārezm (Khorezm) and Bactria, which formed part of Transoxania (Sogdiana). Over the course of time, the eastern Iranian dialect that...
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    easternmost reaches of geographical knowledge in classical authors, i.e. Transoxania and India. In the 20th century, "Western Asia" was used to denote a rough...
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    In the early 16th century, Sultan Mahmud Khan, the Chagatai Khan of Western Moghulistan, and Sultan Ahmad Alaq Khan, the Chagatai Khan of Eastern Moghulistan...
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  • giving up its own nomadic ways, like a number of other Mongol tribes in Transoxania ..." Muslim Caste in Uttar Pradesh (A Study of Culture Contact), Ghaus...
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    ancient population of Khwārezm (Khorezm) and Bactria, which formed part of Transoxania (Sogdiana). Over the course of time, the eastern Iranian dialect that...
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    included the modern Iranian Khorasan province and modern Afghanistan), Transoxania, Balochistan and Makran (part of modern-day Pakistan), Azerbaijan, Dagestan...
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    the Umayyads: Damascus, Persia, Arabia, Egypt, Africa, Andalusia, and Transoxania. The ten horns represent the ten names of the leaders of the Umayyad...
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    (Massagetai, roaming in Turkmenistan), and Sakai (Sakā) Haumavargā (in Transoxania and beyond the Syr Daryā)." Schmitt, Rüdiger (2003). "HAUMAVARGĀ". Encyclopædia...
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    officially in the name of Suurgatmish, the Chagatai khan, he subjugated Transoxania and Khwarazm in the years that followed. Already in the 1360s he had...
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    "Avicenna was a Persian whose father served the Samanids of Khurasan and Transoxania as the administrator of a rural district outside Bukhara." Paul Strathern...
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    used a Chinese specialist catapult unit in battle. They were used in Transoxania again in 1220. The Chinese may have used the catapults to hurl gunpowder...
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    specialist catapult unit in battle, they were used again in 1220 in Transoxania. The Chinese may have used the catapults to hurl gunpowder bombs, since...
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    giving up its own nomadic ways, like a number of other Mongol tribes in Transoxania …" Hunter, Sir William Wilson (1909). "The Indian Empire: Timur's invasion...
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    confluent rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya, a region historically known as Transoxania. Today it is divided among Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It...
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    taking control of the western portion (Transoxania) and Tughlugh Timur the eastern portion (Moghulistan) 1348 Transoxania: Danishmendji is killed by Amir Qazaghan...
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    (2016). What is Beyond the River?: Power, Authority, and Social Order in Transoxania 18th-19th Centuries. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften...
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    the area between the Caspian and Aral seas and the northwest part of Transoxania, along the Syr Darya river. They had moved westward from the Altay mountains...
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    transmitted and elaborated by the Ḥanafī Muslim theologians of Balkh and Transoxania. It was this theological doctrine which al-Māturīdī codified, systematized...
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    Seljuk Turks in the 10th century. Previously a minor ruling clan from Transoxania, they had recently converted to Islam and migrated into Iran. In two...
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  • considered a vassal state by the Tang dynasty after the final conquest of the Transoxania regions by the Chinese in 739. The Karluk rose in rebellion against the...
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    and polite society in the Middle East. Coming as they did through a Transoxania which was still substantially Iranian and into Persia proper, the Seljuqs...
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    the fringes of the Empire – in Armenia, the Caucasus and above all, Transoxania. The extraordinary mineral wealth of the Pamir Mountains led to a legend...
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  • giving up its own nomadic ways, like a number of other Mongol tribes in Transoxania ..." G.R. Garthwaite, "The Persians", Malden, ISBN 978-1-55786-860-2...
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