transoxiana

Updated: August 8, 2026

But in this descent of servitude, the first degree was merely titular, since it was filled by the sovereign of Transoxiana and Chorasan, who still paid a nominal allegiance to the caliph of Bagdad. The second rank was that of a minister of state, a lieutenant of the Samanides, who broke, by his revolt, the bonds of political slavery.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5