Sasanian Khwarazm

Khwarazm Xwarāzm
Province of the Sasanian Empire
242–c. 350
Capital	Kath
History
Historical era	Antiquity
• Conquest by Shapur I	242
•	242
• Xionites conquest	c. 350
Succeeded by Xionites
Today part of	Kazakhstan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

Sasanian Khwarazm (Middle Persian: Xwarāzm) refers to the period that the ancient civilization of Khwarazm was under the suzerainty of the Sasanian Empire from 242^[1] to its conquest by the nomadic Xionites in c. 350.

References

Sources

• Brunner, Christopher (1983). "Geographical and Administrative divisions: Settlements and Economy". The Cambridge History of Iran: The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian periods (2). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 747–778. ISBN 978-0-521-24693-4.
• Frye, Richard N. (1983). "The political history of Iran under the Sasanians". The Cambridge History of Iran: The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian periods (1). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 116–181. ISBN 978-0-521-24693-4.

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