Sogdia
Sogdia ranks 9,970th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Canonbury, Cheam, and Chessington. Memorable people born in Sogdia include Roxana. Sogdia has been the birth place of many companions. Sogdia is located in Tajikistan.
Sogdia or Sogdiana was an ancient Iranian civilization between the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, and in present-day Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. Sogdiana was also a province of the Achaemenid Empire, and listed on the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great. Sogdiana was first conquered by Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, and then was annexed by the Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great in 328 BC. It would continue to change hands under the Seleucid Empire, the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, the Kushan Empire, the Sasanian Empire, the Hephthalite Empire, the Western Turkic Khaganate and the Muslim conquest of Transoxiana. Read more on Wikipedia
In 347 BC, Sogdia was the birth place of 1 globally memorable people, including Roxana.
People Born in Sogdia
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Most individuals born in present day Sogdia were companions (1), while most who died were .
