Sogdiana

**Sogdia** () or **Sogdiana** was an ancient Iranian civilization in present-day Uzbekistan, Tajikstan and Kyrgyzstan, located in Central Asia.

## Related pages

- Kipchaks
- Tocharians
- Tang Dynasty
- Achaemenid Empire
- Indo-Iranian peoples
- Indo-Iranian languages

## Other websites

- Sogdian on Interlinguae
- Xerxes II and Sogdianus
- _The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads_ (Online exhibition)

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## Infobox (country)

- **conventional long name**: Sogdia
- **image map**: Sogdiana-300BCE.png
- **image map caption**: Sogdiana, c. 300 BC, then under the Seleucid Empire, one of the successor states to the empire created by Alexander the Great
- **languages**: Sogdian language
- **languages type**: Languages
- **religion**: Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Buddhism, Islam, Nestorian Christianity
- **capital**: Samarkand, Bukhara, Kesh and Khujand
- **life span**: 6th century BC to 11th century AD
- **currency**: Imitations of Sassanid Empire, Sassanid coins, Chinese coins as well as a hybrid of both.