Sogdia or Sogdiana was an ancient Iranic civilization, being situated between Amu Darya and Syr Darya and was located in modern day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhastan and Kyrgyzstan. The Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great mentions Sogdia as one of the provinces of Achaemenid Empire. The province was first conquered by Cyrus the Great as a part of Achaemenid Empire. Sogdians also were subjects of Tang Dynasty of China between 7th to early 10th C.E and lived in Imperial China. Merchants and Politicians from Sogdiana travelled as far as Byzantine Empire. Sogdiana prehistorically was part of Bronze Age Civilization and later Indo-European migrants during Iron-Age came and formed the Andronovo-Culture. As part of Achaemenid Empire they were believed to be controlled by the nearby Satrapy or Governorship of Bactria. Up until 400 BC , till the rule of Artaxerxes II, Sogdiana believed to remain a part of Achaemenid Empire. Alexander the Great captured the Sogdiana Fortress namely The Sogdian Rock or Rock of Ariamazes 327 BC. Roxana, the daughter of Sogdian Nobleman Oxyartes who was kept safe in the same fortress, was married to Alexander in the same year following a magnificent feast celebration. Roxana would later become the mother of Alexander IV of Macedon. Three Cities in Asia Minor were later named after the Sogdian Wife Apama of Greek General Seleucus I Nicator. Sogdia then became a part of Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian Kingdom later got conquered first by Sakas and then the Yuezhi. Sasanian Empire of Iran later turned Sogdia as a Satrapy in 260 A.D. [Info and Image Credit : Sogdia , Wikipedia ; Image Availed Under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported ; Image-URL :: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Sogdia.jpg ]
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