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- proper noun historical An
ancient portion ofCentral Asia , the region between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, corresponding approximately with modern-dayUzbekistan ,Tajikistan and southwestKazakhstan .
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All this may be true; but I do not understand how he could reign in Transoxiana in the time of Malek
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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90 According to the Orientals, the empire of Nushirvan extended from Ferganah, in Transoxiana, to Yemen or
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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The lands to its north are known as Ma wara al-Nahr (Mawerannahar) or “What is behind the stream,” = Transoxiana and their capitals were successively Samarcand and Bokhara.
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Within the Buddhist tradition, art has been important since the Buddhists met the Greeks somewhere in or near Transoxiana all those centuries ago.
Art and religion... Mumon 2005
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Painting in an album from Transoxiana or Herat 1400
Tuesday, August 03, 2004 As'ad 2004
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Asian merchants had traded on the Silk Road in central Asia (westward through Mongolia, south or north around the Takla Makan Desert to Songdiana, then westward to Transoxiana, from which this regular long-distance trade entered the Roman Empire).
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Allied with the Turks of Transoxiana, Khusrau finally brought an end to Hephthalite power.
502-506 2001
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There are rumours of wars, moreover, in Transoxiana, where the King of
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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About 1321, under Kabak, the realm of the Chagatai was divided into two parts; Mávará-un-Nahr, or Transoxiana, and Moghulistan, or Jatah.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Transoxiana, and also what is not chinese Turkestan, Ferghána,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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