The name Khwarazmian (also Khwarezmian, Khwarizmim, Khorezmian, Chorasmian, Carizmian, and others) may refer to:
Places and peoples
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Khwarazm, a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia
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Khwarazmshah, the title of various rulers of Khwarazm from four different dynasties
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Khwarazmian Empire, 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, its ruling dynasty of Khwarazmshahs
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Khwarazmian army between 1231 and 1246, which sacked Jerusalem in 1244
Languages and scripts
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Khwarezmian language
Khwārezmian (Khwarezmian: , ''zβ'k 'y xw'rzm''; also transliterated Khwarazmian, Chorasmian, Khorezmian) is an extinct East Iranian language closely related to Sogdian. The language was spoken in the area of Khwarezm (Chorasmia), centered i ...
(6th–13th century), an extinct East Iranian language
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Chorasmian (script)
Khwārezmian (Khwarezmian: , ''zβ'k 'y xw'rzm''; also transliterated Khwarazmian, Chorasmian, Khorezmian) is an extinct East Iranian language closely related to Sogdian. The language was spoken in the area of Khwarezm (Chorasmia), centered ...
, 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 (Land beyond the Oxus) is the Latin name for a region and civilizat ...
, the Unicode block containing the script
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Khorezmian language (Turkic)
Khorezmian was a literary Turkic language of the medieval Golden Horde of Central Asia and Eastern Europe. It was a preliminary stage of the Chagatai language, which would remain an important language of Central Asia until the 20th century. It ...
(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-century ...
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Khorasan (disambiguation)
Khorasan may refer to:
* Greater Khorasan, a historical region which lies mostly in modern-day northern/northwestern Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan
* Khorasan Province, a pre-2004 province of Ira ...
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