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Bookmark or Share- The Sogdians Abroad | The Sogdians - Smithsonian InstitutionThe Sogdian Whirl (huxuan wu 胡旋舞), as the dance was known, would become a phenomenon in China; Fig. 1. Bo Juyi’s poem describes the impact of this Sogdian cultural import, of how “officials and concubines all learned how to circle and turn.” Indeed, the dance’s influence reached all the way up to the emperor Tang Xuanzong ...
- Sogdian language - WikipediaThe Sogdian language was an Eastern Iranian language spoken mainly in the Central Asian region of Sogdia (capital: Samarkand; other chief cities: Panjakent, Fergana, Khujand, and Bukhara), located in modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan; it was also spoken by some Sogdian immigrant communities in ancient China.
- Sogdia - WikipediaSogdia or Sogdiana was an ancient Iranian civilization between the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, and in present-day Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.Sogdiana was also a province of the Achaemenid Empire, and listed on the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great.Sogdiana was first conquered by Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, and then was ...
- Who Were the Sogdians, | The Sogdians - Smithsonian InstitutionThe 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.
- The (Re)discovery of the Sogdians | The Sogdians - Smithsonian InstitutionAnother valuable Chinese source is the Hou Han Shu 後漢書 [History of the Later Han], compiled in the mid-5th century. The chapter on the kingdom of “Liyi” 栗弋 (correctly, Suyi 粟弋) or Sogdiana, is described thus: “a dependency of Kangju 康居 [a federation of tribes in the Talas Basin, Tashkent , and Sogdiana].It produces famous horses, cattle, sheep, grapes, and all sorts of ...
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