The Archaeology of Sogdiana
of the Sogdian Civilization of the 4th-10th Centuries
Author: Boris I. Marshak/Boris Y. Stavisky
Publisher: The Hermitage Museum,St.Petersburg
Number of pages: 31
Format / Quality: rar
According to Greek and Roman authors, Sogdiana included territories between two rivers, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya. Khoresm, which occupied the Amu Darya delta, was not part of Sogdiana. Later Sogdiana, beginning at least in the first and second centuries CE, occupied a smaller territory. Thus its southern border was no longer along the Amu Darya but along the Zeravshan mountain range. Ferghana and Ustrushana, situated between Chach (the Tashkent oasis), Ferghana and Sogdiana, did not belong to Sogdiana, although the inhabitants of Ustrushana wrote and, perhaps, spoke the Sogdian language...
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