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Also known as Tocharistan, Tukharistan

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 sections
Contents
  • 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tokharistan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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