آسيا الوسطى: الفرق بين النسختين

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وخلال عصور ما قبل الإسلام وأوائل العصر الإسلامي، كانت تسكن جنوب آسيا الوسطى من قبل المتحدثين [[لغات إيرانية|باللغات الإيرانية]].<ref>Encyclopædia Iranica, "CENTRAL ASIA: The Islamic period up to the Mongols", C. Edmund Bosworth: "In early Islamic times Persians tended to identify all the lands to the northeast of Khorasan and lying beyond the Oxus with the region of Turan, which in the Shahnama of Ferdowsi is regarded as the land allotted to Fereydun's son Tur. The denizens of Turan were held to include the Turks, in the first four centuries of Islam essentially those nomadizing beyond the Jaxartes, and behind them the Chinese (see Kowalski; Minorsky, "Turan"). Turan thus became both an ethnic and a diareeah term, but always containing ambiguities and contradictions, arising from the fact that all through Islamic times the lands immediately beyond the Oxus and along its lower reaches were the homes not of Turks but of Iranian peoples, such as the Sogdians and Khwarezmians."</ref><ref>C.E. Bosworth, "The Appearance of the Arabs in Central Asia under the Umayyads and the establishment of Islam", in History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol. IV: The Age of Achievement: AD 750 to the End of the Fifteenth Century, Part One: The Historical, Social and Economic Setting, edited by M. S. Asimov and C. E. Bosworth. Multiple History Series. Paris: UNESCO Publishing, 1998. excerpt from page 23: "Central Asia in the early seventh century, was ethnically, still largely an Iranian land whose people used various Middle Iranian languages.</ref> وحدثت الهجرة الرئيسية [[ترك|للشعوب التركية]] بين القرنين [[القرن 5|الخامس]] [[القرن 10|والعاشر]]، عندما انتشرت في معظم أنحاء آسيا الوسطى. وخلال القرنين [[القرن 13|الثالث عشر]] و[[القرن 14|الرابع عشر]]، احتل المغول المنطقة، وحكمت من قبل [[خانية جغتايالجاغاطاي]].