The name Khwarazmian (also Khwarezmian, Khwarizmim, Khorezmian, Chorasmian, Carizmian, and others) may refer to:
Places and peoples
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Khwarazm
Khwarazm (; ; , ''Xwârazm'' or ''Xârazm'') or Chorasmia () is a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia, bordered on the north by the (former) Aral Sea, on the east by the Kyzylkum Desert, on the south by th ...
, a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia
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Khwarazmshah
Khwarazmshah was an ancient title used regularly by the rulers of the Central Asian region of Khwarazm starting from the Late Antiquity until the advent of the Mongols in the early 13th-century, after which it was used infrequently. There were a to ...
, the title of various rulers of Khwarazm from four different dynasties
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Khwarazmian Empire
The Khwarazmian Empire (), or simply Khwarazm, was a culturally Persianate society, Persianate, Sunni Muslim empire of Turkic peoples, Turkic ''mamluk'' origin. Khwarazmians ruled large parts of present-day Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran ...
, a Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim empire that ruled large parts of present-day Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran from about 1077 to 1231
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Khwarazmian dynasty
The Anushtegin dynasty or Anushteginids (English: , ), also known as the Khwarazmian dynasty () was a Sunni Islam, Sunni Muslim dynasty of Turkic peoples, Turkic ''mamluk'' origin from the Begdili, Bekdili clan of the Oghuz Turks. The Anushteg ...
, its ruling dynasty of Khwarazmshahs
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Khwarazmian army between 1231 and 1246
The Khwarazmian army, also called the ''Khwarazmiyya'', maintained itself as a force of freebooters and mercenaries between 1231 and 1246, following the Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire, Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire (1221) a ...
, which sacked Jerusalem in 1244
Languages and scripts
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Khwarezmian language
Khwārezmian (Khwarezmian: ; also transliterated Khwarazmian, Chorasmian, Khorezmian) is an extinct Eastern Iranian language closely related to Sogdian. The language was spoken in the area of Khwarezm (Chorasmia), centered in the lower Amu ...
(6th century BCE – 13th century CE), an extinct East Iranian language
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Chorasmian (script)
Khwārezmian (Khwarezmian: ; also transliterated Khwarazmian, Chorasmian, Khorezmian) is an extinct Eastern Iranian language closely related to Sogdian. The language was spoken in the area of Khwarezm (Chorasmia), centered in the lower Amu Da ...
, script used in writing the (Iranian) Khwarazmian language
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Chorasmian (Unicode block)
Chorasmian is a Unicode block containing characters from the Chorasmian script, which was used for writing the Khwarezmian language in Transoxiana
Transoxiana or Transoxania (, now called the Amu Darya) is the Latin name for the region and ...
, the Unicode block containing the script
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Khorezmian Turkic
Khorezmian Turkic or Khwārazm Turkish (called ''Türki'' by its early user Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn Burhān al-Dīn Rabghūzī)M. van Damme, "Rabghūzī", in ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'', ed. by P. Bearman and others, 2nd edn (Leiden: Brill, 1960–2 ...
(13th–14th century), an extinct Turkic language
See also
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Al-Khwārizmī (disambiguation)
Al-Khwarizmi or Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (c. 780 – c. 850) was a Persian scholar who produced works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography.
Al-Khwarizmi may also refer to:
People
* Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khwarizmi, 10th-centu ...
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Khorasan (disambiguation)
Khorasan is a historical region of Central Asia, now in modern-day northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan and northern Afghanistan, sometimes used in a looser sense to include parts of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Khorasan may also refer to:
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