Sogdia

Sogdia was a historical region in , the northernmost province of the Persian Empire and of the kingdom Alexander the Great established in the region after conquering the Persians.
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  • Region
  • Description: ancient Iranian civilisation located between the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya rivers, in what is now Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan
  • Also known as
    “Sogd”
    “Sogdiana”
  • Location
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Latitude of center
39.5° or 39° 30′ north
Longitude of center
67.6167° or 67° 37′ 0″ east
Wiki­data ID
Q486244

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sogdia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sogdië”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σογδιανή”
  • Arabic: “بلاد الصغد”
  • Arabic: “صغد”
  • Armenian: “Սոգդիանա”
  • Armenian: “Սողդիանա”
  • Asturian: “Sogdiano”
  • Azerbaijani: “Soğd”
  • Bashkir: “Сөғд батшалығы”
  • Basque: “Sogdiana”
  • Belarusian: “Сагдыяна”
  • Bulgarian: “Согдиана”
  • Catalan: “Sògdia”
  • Catalan: “Sogdiana”
  • Chinese: “粟特”
  • Chinese: “粟特人”
  • Chinese: “索格底亚”
  • Chinese: “索格狄亞納”
  • Chinese: “苏达克”
  • Chuvash: “Сăкăт патшалăхĕ”
  • Chuvash: “Сăкăт”
  • Croatian: “Sogdijana”
  • Czech: “Sogd”
  • Czech: “Sogdiana”
  • Dutch: “Sogden”
  • Dutch: “Sogdiana”
  • Dutch: “Sogdianië”
  • Dutch: “Sogdië”
  • Dutch: “Soghdië”
  • Esperanto: “Sogdio”
  • Finnish: “Sogdia”
  • Finnish: “Sogdiana”
  • French: “Sogdiane”
  • French: “Sogdie”
  • Galician: “Sogdiana”
  • Georgian: “სოგდი”
  • Georgian: “სოგდიანა”
  • Georgian: “სოღდი”
  • Georgian: “სოჰდი”
  • German: “Sogden”
  • German: “Sogder”
  • German: “Sogdiana”
  • German: “Sogdiane”
  • German: “Sogdianer”
  • German: “Sogdien”
  • German: “Sogdier”
  • Greek: “Σογδιανή”
  • Hebrew: “סוגדיאנה”
  • Hindi: “सोग़दाई”
  • Hindi: “सोग़दिया”
  • Hindi: “सोग़दियाना”
  • Hindi: “सोग़्दा”
  • Hungarian: “Szogdia”
  • Indonesian: “Sogdia”
  • Irish: “an tSogdáin”
  • Italian: “Lingua sogdiana”
  • Italian: “Sogdiana”
  • Italian: “Sogdiani”
  • Japanese: “ソグディアナ”
  • Kazakh: “Согдиана”
  • Kazakh: “Соғд”
  • Kazakh: “Соғдиана”
  • Kazakh: “Соғды”
  • Korean: “소그드인”
  • Korean: “소그디아”
  • Korean: “속특”
  • Kurdish: “Sogdiya”
  • Latin: “Sogdia”
  • Latin: “Sogdiana”
  • Latvian: “Sogdiāna”
  • Literary Chinese: “粟特”
  • Lithuanian: “Sogda”
  • Lithuanian: “Sogdai”
  • Lithuanian: “Sogdas”
  • Lithuanian: “Sogdiana”
  • Malay: “Sogdia”
  • Malayalam: “സോഗ്ഡിയ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sogdiana”
  • Mongolian: “Согд”
  • Nepali: “सोग्दिया”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sogdia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sogdiana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sogdisk”
  • Norwegian: “Sogdia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sogdiana”
  • Ossetian: “Согд”
  • Ossetian: “Согдианæ”
  • Ossetian: “Согдиана”
  • Ossetian: “Согъд”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੋਗ਼ਦਾ”
  • Persian: “سغد باستان”
  • Persian: “سغد”
  • Persian: “سغده”
  • Persian: “سغدیانا”
  • Persian: “سوغودا”
  • Persian: “سوغوده”
  • Polish: “Sogdiana”
  • Portuguese: “Sogdiana”
  • Portuguese: “Sogdianos”
  • Pushto: “سغديانا”
  • Romanian: “Sogdiana”
  • Russian: “Гава”
  • Russian: “Согд”
  • Russian: “Согдиана”
  • Russian: “Согдиане”
  • Russian: “Согдианцы”
  • Russian: “Сугуда”
  • Serbian: “Согдијана”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sogdijana”
  • Slovak: “Sogdiana”
  • Slovenian: “Sogdija”
  • Spanish: “Sogdiana”
  • Spanish: “Sogdiano”
  • Spanish: “Sogdianos”
  • Swahili: “Sogdia”
  • Swedish: “Sogdania”
  • Swedish: “Sogdiana”
  • Swedish: “Sogdiania”
  • Swedish: “Sogdianien”
  • Swedish: “Sogdien”
  • Swedish: “Sugdiane”
  • Swedish: “Sugdiyona”
  • Swedish: “Sughuda”
  • Tajik: “Сарзамини Суғд”
  • Tajik: “Суғд”
  • Tamil: “சோக்தியானா”
  • Tatar: “Согдиана”
  • Tatar: “Согыд”
  • Thai: “ซอกเดีย”
  • Thai: “ซอกเดียนา”
  • Turkish: “Soğdiana”
  • Turkish: “Soğdlar”
  • Turkish: “Soğdya”
  • Ukrainian: “Согдіана”
  • Urdu: “سغد”
  • Uzbek: “So’g’d”
  • Uzbek: “Сўғд”
  • Venetian: “Sogdiana”
  • Vietnamese: “Sogdia”
  • Vietnamese: “Sogdiana”
  • Vietnamese: “Túc Đặc”
  • Western Panjabi: “سُغد”
  • Wu Chinese: “粟特”
  • Yue Chinese: “粟特”

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