Sogdian
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- anything pertaining to Sogdiana Sogdiana or Sogdia was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a province of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the eighteenth in the list in the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great (i. 16). Sogdiana is thought to be "listed" as the second of the "good lands and countries" that Ahura Mazda was believed to have, an ancient civilization of Iranian peoples Indigenous ethnicities and emigrant communities living in: Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, Russia, Oman, China , Hungary, United Kingdom, Germany and United States
and in particular to
- the Sogdian language The Sogdian language is a Middle Iranian language that was spoken in Sogdiana , located in modern day Uzbekistan and Tajikistan (chief cities: Samarkand, Panjakent, Fergana)
- or the Sogdian people
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