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How to use Sogdiana in a sentence

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First there is the map on both inside covers tracing the great man's absurdly convoluted campaigns through such intestinally named places as Bactria, Sogdiana and Ecbatana.
By the 740s, the Arabs of Khurasan had established a presence in the Ferghana basin and in Sogdiana.
Spitamenes, who held an undefined position in the satrapy of Sogdiana, in 329 BC betrayed Bessus to Ptolemy, one of Alexander's trusted companions, and Bessus was executed.
However, when, at some point later, Alexander was on the Jaxartes dealing with an incursion by a horse nomad army, Spitamenes raised Sogdiana in revolt.
Thus, in Bactria and Sogdiana, Alexander successfully used his javelin throwers and archers to prevent outflanking movements, while massing his cavalry at the center.
Examples from Classical Literature
These contrasts were most striking on the upper Oxus, in Sogdiana and Margiana.
Besides, the possession of the rich trading countries, Bactria and Sogdiana, was in itself an object of vast importance.
Alexander conquered both Bactriana and Sogdiana, and planted Grecian cities there.
He appears to have been master not only of Bactria, but also of Sogdiana.
In Sogdiana and Khorasan, they had become converts to the Mahometan faith.
The height of the fortress in Sogdiana is double the height of this.
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