Sogdians

E120202
ancient Iranian people ethnic group

The Sogdians were an ancient Iranian people of Central Asia renowned as influential Silk Road merchants and cultural intermediaries between East and West.

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All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
Sogdians canonical 10
Sogd 1
Sogdian culture 1

Statements (74)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Iranian people ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ
artStyle Sogdian metalwork ⓘ
Sogdian wall painting ⓘ
burialCustom Zoroastrian funerary practices ⓘ
ossuary use ⓘ
continent Asia ⓘ
coreTerritory Sogdia ⓘ
surface form: Sogdiana

Zarafshan River valley ⓘ
culturalInfluenceOn Central Asian urban culture ⓘ
Chinese art ⓘ
Chinese dance ⓘ
Chinese music ⓘ
Tang dynasty cosmopolitan culture ⓘ
Uyghur culture ⓘ
declineCause Arab conquests in Central Asia ⓘ
Islamization of Central Asia ⓘ
Turkic migrations ⓘ
diasporaPresence Chang'an ⓘ
North China Plain ⓘ
surface form: Chinese Central Plains

Luoyang ⓘ
Sogdian colonies in China ⓘ
Tarim Basin ⓘ
Turkestan ⓘ
economicActivity craft production ⓘ
horse trade ⓘ
moneylending ⓘ
silk trade ⓘ
slave trade ⓘ
wine production ⓘ
ethnicSuccessor Tajiks ⓘ
modern Iranian-speaking Central Asians ⓘ
ethnolinguisticGroup Iranian peoples ⓘ
floruit 4th century CE ⓘ
5th century CE ⓘ
6th century CE ⓘ
7th century CE ⓘ
8th century CE ⓘ
historicalEra Early Middle Ages ⓘ
Late Antiquity ⓘ
historicalRole intermediary between China and the Iranian world ⓘ
intermediary between China and the Mediterranean ⓘ
knownFor Silk Road trade ⓘ
cultural mediation between East and West ⓘ
long-distance caravan trade ⓘ
merchant diaspora communities ⓘ
language Sogdian language ⓘ
languageFamily Eastern Iranian languages ⓘ
majorCity Bukhara, Uzbekistan ⓘ
surface form: Bukhara

Panjikent ⓘ
Samarkand ⓘ
modernCountryTerritory Afghanistan ⓘ
China ⓘ
Kazakhstan ⓘ
Kyrgyzstan ⓘ
Tajikistan ⓘ
Turkmenistan ⓘ
Uzbekistan ⓘ
politicalStatus subject people of the Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
subject people of the Sasanian Empire ⓘ
subjects of early Islamic caliphates ⓘ
subjects of the Tang dynasty in Central Asia ⓘ
subjects of the Western Turkic Khaganate ⓘ
region Central Asia ⓘ
religion Buddhism ⓘ
Manichaeism ⓘ
Nestorianism ⓘ
surface form: Nestorian Christianity

Zoroastrianism ⓘ
tradeRoute Silk Road routes ⓘ
surface form: Silk Road

northern Silk Road routes ⓘ
routes between China and Samarkand ⓘ
routes between Samarkand and the Mediterranean ⓘ
writingSystem Aramaic-derived scripts ⓘ
Sogdian alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Sogdian script

Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Iranian languages → hasMajorLanguage → Sogdians ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian language
Tajiks → ancestralOrigin → Sogdians ⓘ
Iranian peoples → hasPart → Sogdians ⓘ
Iranian plateau → historicallyInhabitedBy → Sogdians ⓘ
Samarkand → foundedBy → Sogdians ⓘ
Indo-Iranian peoples → hasAncientGroup → Sogdians ⓘ
Bactrians → neighboringPeople → Sogdians ⓘ
Sogdia → ethnicGroup → Sogdians ⓘ
Middle Iranian languages → hasPart → Sogdians ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian of Sogdia
Pamiris → relatedTo → Sogdians ⓘ
Sogdian alphabet → usedBy → Sogdians ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian people
Sogdian alphabet → iso15924Code → Sogdians ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogd
Manichaean script → usedBy → Sogdians ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian scribes
Sogdian language → spokenBy → Sogdians ⓘ
Afrasiab archaeological site → culture → Sogdians ⓘ
this entity surface form: Sogdian culture
Alexandria on the Jaxartes → localPopulation → Sogdians ⓘ