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KhwarazmXwarāzm
Province of the Sasanian Empire
242–c. 350
Capital	Kath
Historical era	Antiquity
• Conquest by Shapur I	242
•	242
• Xionites conquest	c. 350
Succeeded by Xionites
Today part of	Kazakhstan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

Sasanian Khwarazm (Middle Persian: Xwarāzm) refers to the period that the ancient civilization of Khwarazm was under the suzerainty of the Sasanian Empire from 242 to its conquest by the nomadic Xionites in c. 350.

References

1. Frye 1983, p. 125.

Sources

• Brunner, Christopher (1983). "Geographical and Administrative divisions: Settlements and Economy". The Cambridge History of Iran: The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian periods (2). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 747–778. ISBN 978-0-521-24693-4.
• Frye, Richard N. (1983). "The political history of Iran under the Sasanians". The Cambridge History of Iran: The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian periods (1). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 116–181. ISBN 978-0-521-24693-4.

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