
Tokharistan
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thumb|300px|Tang dynasty map of its Western territories, showing Tokharistan (吐火罗) in the area of [[Bactria, at the extreme west of Chinese-controlled territories.]]
Key facts
- Former Country.conventional_long_name
- Tokharistan
- Former Country.common_name
- Tokharistan
- Former Country.era
- Early Middle Ages
- Former Country.capital
- Balkh
- Former Country.today
- Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Names
- Ethnicities
- "Tocharians" in the Tarim Basin
- Chinese sources
- Geography
- Art and culture
- 5th–6th century CE
- 7th century CE
- Samanids and Ghaznavids, 10th–11th century
- References
- Sources
thumb|300px|Tang dynasty map of its Western territories, showing Tokharistan (吐火罗) in the area of [[Bactria, at the extreme west of Chinese-controlled territories.]]
Tokharistan (also spelled Tocharistan or Tukharistan; Classical Persian: or ; ) is a historical name used by Islamic sources in the early Middle Ages to refer to the area which was known as Bactria in Ancient Greek sources. The name appears before Islam in Bactrian as () on the 2nd-century silver dish of Nukunzuk and on two 5th-century Bactrian documents, a name which the Tochari gave to the areas they settled but which was likely limited initially to Bactria's eastern parts.
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