Southern Uzbekistan
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F20%3A10416692" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/20:10416692 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315108513-14" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315108513-14</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315108513-14" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781315108513-14</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Southern Uzbekistan
Original language description
Today, the Surkhan Darya region represents the southernmost administrative unit of Uzbekistan, which is from the point of view of physical geography a clearly delimited territory. According to the Greek literary sources, in antiquity this area formed a buffer zone between two important historical regions, those of Bactria and Sogdiana (Strabo 11.11.1-2). The correct assignment of this region to one of the two aforementioned entities poses, at least in the so-called Hellenistic period,2 a complicated historical-geographical problem that remains unresolved despite being addressed repeatedly by numerous scholars (P'yankov 1982, 34-39; Masson 1985, 250; Rtveladze 1990, 4-5; Abdullaev 1997; Rapin 2013; 2018) and the present author has no ambition to do this in the following pages either. However, to understand the history of the region in question in the 3rd-2nd centuries BC, it is necessary to put it into a broader context of developments in southern Central Asia in the Early Iron Age, and to set it against the realities of the Late Achaemenid period. In the following pages, I am going to characterise this particular part of the eastern Hellenistic world using predominantly archaeological and numismatic sources without any claims to present more general conclusions of a historical nature, concerning the whole of Bactria, still less the entire 'Hellenized East'.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World
ISBN
978-1-138-09069-9
Number of pages of the result
37
Pages from-to
249-285
Number of pages of the book
712
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
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