Eurasian Studies

Balkans, Anatolia, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia Studies Notebooks

Ai confini della Sogdiana

I bacini dell’alto Zaravšan e dello Yaghnob nell’VIII secolo

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Abstract

In the northern region of Tajikistan called Sugd lives a population speaking a language closely related to Sogdian. This people is called ‘Yaghnobi’ and takes its name from the river that runs through the valley. In a series of expeditions of the Italian ethnolinguistic and archeological mission in Tajikistan (2007-2012), we have investigated the relationship between the Yaghnobis and the Sogdians and the political-economic situation of the upper Zaravšan and Yaghnob basins in the eight century AD.


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Submitted: March 19, 2019 | Accepted: July 29, 2019 | Published Oct. 17, 2019 | Language: it

Keywords Matcha • Hissorak • Sogdians • Yaghnob • Zaravšan • Yaghnobis

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