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Sogdia (/ˈsɒɡdiə/) or Sogdiana was an ancient Iranian civilisation located between the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya rivers, in what is now Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Sogdiana was also a province of the Achaemenid Empire, and is listed on the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great. Sogdiana was first conquered by…
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sogdian sogdians chinese china empire also tang silk century samarkand sogdiana dynasty trade central persian asia bce ce one merchants
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sogdia | Capital | Samarkand, Bukhara, Khujand, Kesh | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sogdia | Currency | Imitations of Sasanian coins coins and Chinese cash coins as well as "hybrids" of both. | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sogdia | Languages | Sogdian | 1.00 | infobox |
| Sogdia | Religion | Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Buddhism, Islam, Nestorian Christianity, Hinduism | 1.00 | infobox |
| the Mihr Yasht | instance of | which would place the composition of Young Avestan texts | 0.80 | text |
| the Vendidad in the first half of the first millennium BCE.The first mention of Gava is found in the Mihr Yasht | instance of | which would place the composition of Young Avestan texts | 0.80 | text |
| i.e. the hymn dedicated to the Zoroastrian deity Mithra | instance of | which would place the composition of Young Avestan texts | 0.80 | text |
| Varkhuman | instance of | and the Sogdian rulers | 0.80 | text |
| as well as the Western Turks | instance of | and the Sogdian rulers | 0.80 | text |
| all became nominal vassals of China | instance of | and the Sogdian rulers | 0.80 | text |
| as part of the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang dynasty | instance of | and the Sogdian rulers | 0.80 | text |
| until the Muslim conquest of Transoxiana.Arab Muslim conquest | instance of | and the Sogdian rulers | 0.80 | text |
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