Monthly Archives: April 2019

  Part III: The Sogdians—Death by Immigration and Emigration Sogdiana Sogdiana, for the most part, comprised the semi-arid and mountainous area of present Uzbekistan’s Samarkand and Bukhara provinces and Tajikistan’s Sughd province.  The Sogdians were Irano-Aryans who had migrated from the Central Asian steppe, and their major cities (which they founded) were Samarkand and Bukhara (Dien n.d., 1; “Sogdiana,” 4).  Sogdiana was the national homeland of this predominately Nordic people during the 2,000 or 1,600-year period from the eleventh or…..

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