Kasashen tsakiyar Asiya Kasashe ne a cikin Nahiyar Asiya ta Tsakiya,Karshen sunaye kasashen ya kare da "Tan" ma'anar sa kuwa shine Kasa a harshen yaran Parisa kasashen sune:- Kazakystan Kyrgystan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Paul McFedries (25 October 2001). "stans". Word Spy. Retrieved 16 February 2011. Encyclopædia Iranica, "CENTRAL ASIA: The Islamic period up to the Mongols", C. Edmund Bosworth: "In early Islamic times Persians tended to identify all the lands to the northeast of Khorasan and lying beyond the Oxus with the region of Turan, which in the Shahnama of Ferdowsi is regarded as the land allotted to Fereydun's son Tur. The denizens of Turan were held to include the Turks, in the first four centuries of Islam essentially those nomadizing beyond the Jaxartes, and behind them the Chinese (see Kowalski; Minorsky, "Turan"). Turan thus became both an ethnic and a diareeah term, but always containing ambiguities and contradictions, arising from the fact that all through Islamic times the lands immediately beyond the Oxus and along its lower reaches were the homes not of Turks but of Iranian peoples, such as the Sogdians and Khwarezmians."