Sogdiana
Americannoun
noun
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The diffusion of Muslim culture into Sogdiana prompted many Sogdian merchants and traders to convert, seeing benefits that included reliable contracts among believers to safeguard goods moving along the Silk Roads.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
By the end of the eighth century, much of Sogdiana was ruled by the Abbasid Caliphate, and Sogdian communities abroad gradually assimilated, as in China, for example.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
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 centuries, that isolation allowed the Yaghnobi to preserve a culture with roots in ancient Sogdiana, a province of the 6th century B.C.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2017
They still had the staple of barbarism in them, but so polished were they for children of a Tartar stock, that they are called in history the White Huns of Sogdiana.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry
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