Back أشروسنة Arabic Usruşana Azerbaijani Усрушана Bulgarian Usruixana Catalan Οσρουσάνα Greek اسروشنه Persian Uszrúsana Hungarian Ushrusana Italian Osruxana Portuguese Усрӯшана Tajik
Osrushana | |
 Bunjikat, ancient capital of Osrushana | |
  Location of Bunjikat, ancient capital of Osrushana  Osrushana (Tajikistan) | |
| Alternative name | Osrushana |
|---|---|
| Location | Tajikistan |
| Coordinates | 39°46′12.4″N 68°47′55.6″E / 39.770111°N 68.798778°E |
| Type | Settlement |
Osrušana (Persian: اسروشنه) or Ustrushana [a] was a former Iranian region[1] in Transoxiana, home to the Principality of Ushrusana, an important pre-Islamic polity of Central Asia. Oshrusana lay to the south of the great, southernmost bend of the Syr Darya and extended roughly from Samarkand to Khujand. The capital city of Oshrusana was Bunjikat. The exact form of the Iranian name Osrušana is not clear from the sources, but the forms given in Hudud al-'alam, indicate an original *Sorušna.[1]
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- ^ a b C. Edmund Bosworth (2005), "Osrušana", in Encyclopaedia Iranica. Online Accessed November 2010 [1] Quote 1: "The region was little urbanized, and it long preserved its ancient Iranian feudal and patriarchal society". Quote 2: "At the time of the Arab incursions into Transoxania, Osrušana had its own line of Iranian princes, the Afšins (Ebn Ḵordāḏbeh, p. 40), of whom the most famous was the general of the caliph Moʿtaṣem (q.v. 833-42), the Afšin Ḵayḏar or Ḥaydar b. Kāvus (d. 841; see Afšin)", "The region was little urbanized, and it long preserved its ancient Iranian feudal and patriarchal society."