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The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads is organized by the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.. This online exhibition is made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation, with additional support from the Thaw Charitable Trust and the Smithsonian Provost Scholarly Studies Award program.
Mar 4, 2011 · iii. HISTORY AND ARCHEOLOGY. Sogdiana, an Iranian-speaking region in Central Asia, stretches from the rivers Āmu Daryā in the south to the Syr Daryā in the north, with its heart in the valleys of the Zarafšān and the Kaška Daryā. But this description, appropriate for the early period, varied over time. Sogdiana ceded to Bactriana (see ...
Aug 10, 2017 · It is not clear whether Sogdiana ever formed a separate satrapy; at the time of Alexander’s invasion, it seemed to represent a part of the Bactrian satrapy (see Bernard, p. 26; Briant, pp. 743-54). The name Sogdianus, probably related to Sogdiana in some way, appears as name of an Achaemenid king for a day in 423 BCE (see Schmitt, p. 272-76).
Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Buddhism, Islam, Nestorian Christianity [1] Currency. Imitations of Sassanian coins and Chinese cash coins as well as "hybrids" of both. [2] [3] Sogdia ( / ˈsɒɡdiə /) or Sogdiana was an ancient Iranian civilization in present-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan .
Artaxerxes had however 17 illegitimate children, many of whom felt equally entitled. First Sogdianus (Secyndianus in Ctesias) murdered Xerxes and proclaimed himself king; he was murdered most horribly in turn by his half brother Ochus, who became king as Darius II. Darius was married to a daughter of Artaxerxes, Parysatis (his half sister).
Mar 23, 2023 · A new dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur, Kansaignathus sogdianus gen. et sp. nov., is described based on a dentary from the Yalovach Formation (Santonian) at Kansai locality in northern Fergana ...
Oct 11, 2013 · “Eumerus sogdianus is a small hoverfly – about 7mm, blackish with no particularly distinctive markings and extremely difficult to identify. It’s been previously recorded in continental Europe including France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany and Denmark and can be found as far east as Central Asia, but this is the first time it has ever been sighted in Britain.
