A thread on #Sogdia; it's people, History and it's religions/deities; some of whom correspond to Sanatan ones!

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Sogdians were Iranic people whose homeland, Sogdiana, was located at the center of several routes, in present-day Uzbekistan, Kazakistan and Tajikistan.

First recorded in the 5th century BCE as a province of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

Sogdiana was first conquered by Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. The region would then be annexed by the Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great in 328 BC.

It subsequently exchanged hands with the Kushan Empire, Hephthalite Empire and the Sasanian Empire.

Sogdian was an Eastern Iranic language and the lingua franca of trade in Central Asia during Late Antiquity. Much of the religion and culture in Penjikent was also Persian origin!