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• History of Xinjiang
  ...e [[Tarim Basin]] in southern Xinjiang was [[Altishahr]], which means "six cities" in the Uyghur language. The region of Dzungaria in northern Xinjiang was n ...BN 90-04-08612-9.</ref><ref>Ahmed, S. Z. (2004), ''Chaghatai: the Fabulous Cities and People of the Silk Road'', West Conshokoken: Infinity Publishing, p. 61
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• Bayanchur Khan
  ...Ordu-Baliq]]. It was built with help of the invited Chinese and [[Sogdiana|Sogdian]] builders at the foot of the sacred [[Otukan]]. The city had city walls ma ...hengiz Khan]]'s wall''. Remnants of 14 forts, known as the ''[[Shagonar]] cities'', were discovered in the 1950s, but were not investigated and were engulfe
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• Uyghurs
  ...se mummies, although other linguists suggest it to be a [[Sogdian language|Sogdian word]] later absorbed into Uyghur.<ref>{{cite book |title=Xinjiang, China's ...[[Turfan]], [[Karasahr]] and [[Kashgar]]. The settled population of these cities later merged with incoming Turkic people such as the Uyghurs of Uyghur Khag
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• Shymkent
  ...grew as a market center for trade between Turkic nomads and the settled [[Sogdian people|Sogdians]]. It was destroyed several times: by Genghis Khan, soldier ...s part of the government’s campaign to apply [[Kazakhs|Kazakh]] names to cities. The formal spelling of Шымкент (Shymkent) as codified in Kazakhstan
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• Taraz
  ...0,100 (1999 Census), up 9% from 1989, making it one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, after [[Astana]] and [[Turkistan (city)|Turkistan]]. One of the oldest cities in Kazakhstan and in [[Transoxania]], build and populated by the ancient [[
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• Silk Road
  ...dating from 1070 BCE have been found in [[Ancient Egypt]]. The Great Oasis cities of [[Central Asia]] played a crucial role in the effective functioning of t ...e, retrieved on 19 November 2013</ref>) and Barbaricum (known today as the cities of Karachi, Sindh, and Pakistan <ref>Barbarikon Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan we
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• Wusun
  ...tun'' for the ruler's wife and ''beg'' for ‘aristocrat’, both terms of Sogdian origin and ever since in common use in Turkish."</ref> a cognate of [[Middl ...k=David Durand-Guédy |date=September 13, 2013 |title=Turko-Mongol Rulers, Cities and City Life |url=https://books.google.no/books?id=Ua9AAQAAQBAJ |location=
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• Western Turkic Khaganate
  The Oxus frontier gave the Western Turks control of the [[Sogdia]]n merchant cities. As a Chinese general complained: Sinor saw the Byzantine alliance as a Sogdian scheme to benefit themselves at the expense of the Turks. A related fact is
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• Suyab
  The settlement of [[Sogdiana|Sogdian]] merchants sprang up along the [[Silk Road]] in the 5th or 6th centuries.
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• Sasanian Empire
  ...day writing, and it provided scripts for writing Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, and Khwarezmian.}}</ref> ...Christians who could exercise their faith freely under Sassanid rule. Two cities, [[Bishapur]] and [[Nishapur]], are named after him. He particularly favore
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