Sogdiana

P. R. 3. 302. A country of central Asia, in the region of the Rivers Oxus and Jaxartes. It was the farthest conquest of Alexander. Periegetes writes: Dionysius “To the north are the Chorasmians, and next the land of Sogdiana, through the midst of which flows the sacred Oxus, which, leaving the Emodus Mountains, falls into the ch273.xhtml c 287