Sogdiana

fresco from the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves near Turfan, Xinjiang, China.]] called The Ambassordors' Painting, found in the hall of the ruin of an aristocratic house in Afrasiab, commissioned by the king of Samarkand, Varkhuman (ca. 650 AD).]] miniature image depicting two female musicians, from a Sogdian-language text (Turfan, China).]]*: Daēnā and Nanā, a line drawing sketch from Tunhwang preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.]]**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

## Further reading
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## Other websites
* Sogdian on Interlinguae
* Xerxes II and Sogdianus 
* *The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads* (Online exhibition)
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