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Sogdiana

(ˌsɒɡdɪˈɑːnə)
n
(Placename) a region of ancient central Asia. Its chief city was Samarkand
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Sog•di•a•na

(ˌsɒg diˈeɪ nə, -ˈæn ə)

n.
a region of ancient and medieval central Asia between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers: now part of Uzbekistan and Tadzhikistan.
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Согдиана
Sogdiana
Sogdiane
Szogdia
Sogdiana
Sogdiana
Sogdiana
Sogdiana
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And just in time thou com'st to have a view Of his great power; for now the Parthian king In Ctesiphon hath gathered all his host Against the Scythian, whose incursions wild Have wasted Sogdiana; to her aid He marches now in haste.
Between 2011 and 2015, outages decreased from 92 to 48 hours in southwest Uzbekistan (more than 4 million people) from the construction of 218 kilometers of a 500kV transmission line connecting Talimarjan Power Plant with the Sogdiana substation and Guzar-Karakul transmission line.
Uzbekistan Railways established Sogdiana Trans subsidiary for the railway maintenance in Afghanistan.
After burning Persepolis (330 BC), Alexander marched through the heart of Iran towards the eastern Persian satrapies of Drangiana, Arachosia, Bactria and Sogdiana. The news of his victories and cruelties preceded him, creating great panic and fear among those who awaited his arrival.
With this view in mind he crossed Hindu Kush and captured whole of Bactria and Sogdiana (Central Asia) and appointed his own governors there and then came back after crossing Hindu Kush in ten days in the early spring of 327 BCE.
While Afghans study how to operate and maintain a railway, operations on the 75-kilometer line to the Naibabad terminal are managed by Sogdiana Trans, an offshoot of Uzbekistan's state-owned railway company, which built the line in 2011.
sogdiana Rasnitsyn, 1974) were originally assigned to Meropeidae but were later reassigned to Thaumatomeropidae [6, 7].
Winner Sogdiana Reiimbaeva, 14, squealed with excitement as she told 7DAYS: "I still cannot believe I will see Shah Rukh Khan.
Soon after Xuanzang reached the city of Suyab (Sogdiana), he came across the Turkish khan, Yehu, who was proceeding to a hunting expedition with two hundred officers.
By 256 B.C., the vast eastern region--with such ancient names as Aria, Arachosia, Bactria, Drangiana, Ferghana, Khwarzem, Margiana, Paropamisadae, Sogdiana, and Transoxiana--broke away from the Seleucid Empire.