Sogdiana
Americannoun
noun
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How did their relative openness to foreign innovation and culture affect the development of border states like Sogdiana, Japan, and Korea?
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
For all its significance in ending Abbasid expansion eastward, the battle is also noteworthy in the story of Sogdiana for one unexpected reason: the response of the rebellious Tang general An Lushan.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Indeed, under first the Seleucids and then the breakaway kingdoms of the Bactrian and Sogdian rulers, Greek learning flourished in Sogdiana,
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
In the 4th century, Alexander the Great defeated the Achaemenids and invaded Sogdiana, taking the Sogdian princess Roxana as his bride.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2017
Alexander conquered both Bactriana and Sogdiana, and planted Grecian cities there.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by John Henry Newman
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