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ID: 8698234
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8698234
Record Type:
administrative
Transoxania (historical region)
Coordinates:
Lat: 39 00 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 39.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 063 00 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 63.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Center of Timurid empire in the 15th century. Corresponds to present-day Uzbekistan and parts of Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kazahkstan; known cities include Bukhara and Samarkand. Occupied by the Russians in the 19th century.
Names:
Transoxania
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
display
)
Transoxiana
(
C
,
V
)
Mā Warā' al-Nahr
(
C
,
V
,
Arabic (transliterated)
,
U
)
Transoxanian
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Central Asia
(general region) (
P
)
............
Transoxania
(historical region) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Transoxania
(historical region) (
P
)
Place Types:
historical region (
preferred
,
C
)
Related geographic places:
historical connection ....
Kara-Khanid Khanate
.......... (former nation/state/empire)
........................................
(World, Asia) [8711772]
........................................
999-1211
Sources and Contributors:
Mā Warā' al-Nahr..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 31 October 2016
Transoxania..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 31 October 2016
Transoxanian..........
[
VP
]
.......................
BWR Data Reconciliation for CONA (2020-2021)
Transoxiana..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 31 October 2016
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 31 October 2016
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 31 October 2016
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