China: Drawing of a Central Asian wearing Sogdian robes taken from a painting of Emperor Taizong (r. 626-649) receiving Ludongzan, ambassador of Tibet, at his court - painted in 641 AD by Yan Liben (600-673)

Sogdiana or Sogdia (Old Persian: Suguda-; Ancient Greek: Σογδιανή; New Persian: سغد – Sōġd; Tajik: Суғд – Sughd; Turkish: Soğut; Chinese:粟特人) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a province of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, eighteenth in the list on the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great.

Sogdiana, at different times, included territories around Samarkand, Bukhara, Khujand and Kesh in modern Uzbekistan. The inhabitants of Sogdiana were the Sogdians, an Eastern Iranian people, who are among the ancestors of modern-day Tajiks and Yagnobis.

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