Sogdian

Grenet, "Iranian Gods in Hindu Garb: The Zoroastrian Pantheon of the Bactrians and Sogdians, Second-Eighth Centuries", Bulletin of the Asia Institute n.s., 20, 2006, pp.

al-Layth, including the participation of Sogdians in the military campaigns of Harun al-Rashid (r.

The Sogdians. People don't know anything about them.

and Bactrians, and from the 5th to the 8th century the Sogdians," he added.

She describes many peoples over the period from the third to tenth centuries CE, but features the Sogdians, an Iranian people who for a thousand years linked the far-flung oases in a thin but enduring trade network.

Other chapters take up the question of the ethnonym Bulouji, a tribe apparently with a Caucasoid element active at the end of the Northern Wei, the name perhaps derived from the Altaic word meaning "mixture." They also consider the role of the Sogdians in the political sphere, a precursor of men like Marco Polo in the Yuan; the question of theophonic names and the significance of their lack in China; and finally, an examination of the central Asian family roots of the famous Chinese poet Bai Juyi, and their influence on his poetry.

Among other topics, multiple chapters are included on the Sogdians, the finds at the Turfan Oasis, and the well-known site of Dunhuang, with individual articles devoted to silk, paper, and money in these areas.

The Persian order of battle at Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis included Arabs, Indians, Sogdians, Ethiopians, Caspians, Thracians and a host of others including Greeks.

There are Sakas, Cimerrians, Sogdians, Thracians, Medes, Assyrians, Sarmations, Hsiungnu, and more, and that's all before Classical Antiquity begins in the West.

700), borrowed from, or shared with, the Sogdians (Tong Tao 2008: 188).