Native Name: | Xwarāzm |
Conventional Long Name: | Khwarazm |
Common Name: | Khwarazm |
Subdivision: | Province |
Nation: | the Sasanian Empire |
Era: | Antiquity |
Year Start: | 242 |
Event Start: | Conquest by Shapur I |
Date Event1: | 242 |
Year End: | c. 350 |
Event End: | Xionites conquest |
Today: | Kazakhstan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan |
S1: | Xionites |
Flag S1: | Asia 400ad-kidarites.jpg |
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.