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Central Asia

Abbasid Achaemenid Bukhara Ghaznavid Göktürk Greco-Bactrian Greek Hephthalite Karakhanid Khwarazmian Kushan Macedonian Mongol Oghuz Yabgu Parthian Russian Samanid Sassanid Seleucid Seljuq Shaybanid Sintashta Sogdian Timurid Umayyad Uzbek

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Current Name

Founded

Destroyed

Age

City

Province/State

Country

Bukhara

c. 700 BC

c. 1200 AD

1900

Bukhoro

Uzbekistan

Sogdian
Bukhara
c. 700 BC -- c. 500 BC

Achaemenid
Bukhara
c. 500 BC -- c. 330 BC

Greek
Bukhara
c. 330 BC -- 312 BC

Seleucid
Bukhara
312 BC -- c. 250 BC

Greco-Bactrian
Bukhara
c. 250 BC -- c. 30 AD

Kushan
Bukhara
c. 30 AD -- c. 400 AD

Hephthalite
Bukhara
c. 400 AD -- 751 AD

Abbasid
Bukhara
c. 751 AD -- c. 990 AD

Karakhanid
Bukhara
c. 990 AD -- c. 1200 AD

Jankent

c. 100 BC

c. 1100 AD

1200

Lenino

South Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Unknown
Jankent
c. 100 BC -- c. 900 AD

Oghuz Yabgu
Yangikent
c. 900 AD -- c. 1100 AD

Kesh

c. 700 BC

c. 330 AD

1030

Qashqadaryo

Uzbekistan

Sogdian
Kesh
c. 700 BC -- c. 330 AD

Khujand

c. 700 BC

c. 330 BC

370

Khudgif

Sughd

Tajikistan

Sogdian
Khujand
c. 700 BC -- c. 330 BC

Konye-Urgench

c. 1100 AD

c. 1250 AD

150

Köneürgench

Dashoguz

Turkmenistan

Khwarazmian
Gurganj
c. 1100 AD -- c. 1250 AD

Nisa

c. 250 BC

c. 100 BC

150

Ahal

Turkmenistan

Parthian
Mithradatkirt
c. 250 BC -- c. 100 BC

Petrovka

c. 2000 BC

c. 1800 BC

200

Petropavlovka

South Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Sintashta
Petrovka
c. 2000 BC -- c. 1800 BC

Samarkand

c. 700 BC

2013 AD

2713

Samarkand

Samarqand

Uzbekistan

Sogdian
Samarkand
c. 700 BC -- 329 BC

Greek
Maracanda
329 BC -- c. 305 BC

Seleucid
Maracanda
c. 305 BC -- c. 65 BC

Unknown
Maracanda
c. 65 BC -- c. 260 AD

Sassanid
Samarkand
c. 260 AD -- 712 AD

Umayyad
Samarkand
712 AD -- c. 900 AD

Samanid
Samarkand
c. 900 AD -- c. 1000 AD

Seljuq
Samarkand
c. 1000 AD -- 1221 AD

Mongol
Samarkand
1221 AD -- 1369 AD

Timurid
Samarkand
1369 AD -- 1505 AD

Uzbek
Samarkand
1505 AD -- 1599 AD

Bukhara
Samarkand
1599 AD -- 1868 AD

Russian
Samarkand
1868 AD -- 1991 AD

Uzbek
Samarkand
1991 AD -- 2013 AD

Termez

329 BC

c. 1700 AD

2029

Termez

Surkhondaryo

Uzbekistan

Macedonian
Termez
329 BC -- c. 300 BC

Greco-Bactrian
Termez
c. 300 BC -- c. 200 BC

Kushan
Talimi
c. 200 BC -- c. 100 BC

Hephthalite
Termez
c. 400 AD -- c. 600 AD

Sassanid
Termez
c. 600 AD -- c. 650 AD

Göktürk
Termez
c. 650 AD -- 705 AD

Umayyad
Termez
705 AD -- c. 750 AD

Abbasid
Termez
c. 750 AD -- c. 900 AD

Samanid
Termez
c. 900 AD -- c. 1000 AD

Ghaznavid
Termez
c. 1000 AD -- c. 1100 AD

Seljuq
Termez
c. 1100 AD -- c. 1150 AD

Karakhanid
Termez
c. 1150 AD -- 1206 AD

Khwarazmian
Termez
1206 AD -- c. 1250 AD

Timurid
Termez
c. 1250 AD -- c. 1500 AD

Shaybanid
Termez
c. 1500 AD -- c. 1700 AD