old province sogdiana, comprising two major city states- samarkand and bukhara which had ancient civilization and brilliant cultural heritage, was the most important province of transoxian. achaemenids, seleucids, kushaniyan, hayateleh, turks and sasanians rule in this region at a time. at the interval between fall of the sassanid (652 a.d) and conquest of transoxiana by muslim (second half o...
