Afrasiyab, Afrasiab, Afrosiyab, or Afrosiyob may refer to:

Places

Afrasiyab (Samarkand) Afrasiyab (),( ''afrāsiyāb'') is an ancient site in Northern Samarkand, present day Uzbekistan, that was occupied from c. 500 BC to 1220 AD prior to the Mongol invasion in the 13th century (see Siege of Samarkand (1220)).Archaeological Researc ...

, an ancient site of Northern Samarkand (present day Uzbekistan) **

Afrasiab Museum of Samarkand Afrasiab Museum of Samarkand ( Uzbek: ''Afrosiyob-Samarqand shahar tarixi muzeyi'') is a museum located at the historical site of Afrasiyab, one of the largest archaeological sites in the world and the ancient city that was destroyed by the Mongo ...

, a museum on the site *

Afrasiab, Iran Afrasiab (, also Romanized as Afrāsīāb, Afrāseyāb, and Afrāsiyāb) is a village in Hoseynabad-e Shomali Rural District, Saral District, Divandarreh County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 333, in 68 familie ...

, a village in Kurdistan Province

People

Afrasiyab dynasty The Afrasiyab or Chalavi dynasty was a relatively minor Iranian Shia dynasty of Tabaristan (present-day Mazandaran province, Iran) and flourished in the late medieval, pre-Safavid period; it is also called the Kia dynasty. It was founded by Kiy ...

, an Iranian Shia dynasty of Tabaristan (present-day Mazandaran province, Iran) 1349–1504 **

Kiya Afrasiyab Kiya Afrasiyab ( Mazandarani/), was the founder of the Afrasiyab dynasty, ruling from 1349 to 1359. Biography Rise to power Afrasiyab was the son of certain Hasan Chulabi, who belonged to the Chulabids, a prominent family of Mazandaran which se ...

, founder and first ruler of the dynasty, reigned 1349–1359 * Afrasiyab I of Basra, originator of the title The Prince of Basra in 1596 * Afrasiyab Badalbeyli (1907–1976), Soviet Azerbaijani composer

Other uses

Afrasiab Afrasiyab ( ''afrāsiyāb''; ; Middle-Persian: ''Frāsiyāv, Frāsiyāk'') is the name of the mythical king and hero of Turan. He is the main antagonist of the Persian epic ''Shahnameh'', written by Ferdowsi. Name and origin ''Afrā'' is the po ...

, a sorcerer and emperor in the Persian epic ''Shahnameh'' *Afrosiyob, the train service name of high-speed rail in Uzbekistan {{disambiguation, geo