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Xeda
Formerly known as Ajansjana
Xeda
Formerly known as Ajansjana
There were several attempts by Arab sultanates to invade and all of these failed.
Some of the quite recent ones include attempts by a Yemeni sultan to exercise authority in Saylac which was promptly repulsed and a failed Mehri invasion.
On the other hand, Somalis have taken the city of Aden at least once and had dozens of settlements in Yemen.
An empire called Tazi? He had never learned this name before, and when was this period. ?
It's not an empire called Tazi - Tazi is a term the Sassanid Persians would call Arabs and apparently Chinese borrowed the same term to refer to Arabs and changed to to 'Dashi/'Tashi'
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This is a common interpretation, but I think it is not true .
What is the truth?
Can you clarify your understanding of the origin of the word ( Tashi ) ?
Why did the Chinese call the Arabs ( Tashi ) ?
Where did the name (Tajik) come from ?
I don't know I was just saying what linguists said about it.
Though Tajik itself used to refer to Arab settlers in Central Asia
Not Arabs .
The word "Sakastan" means "the land of the Saka", a Scythian group which from the 2nd century BC to the 1st century migrated to the Iranian Plateau and India, where they carved a kingdom known as the Indo-Scythian Kingdom.
I thought we were talking about the work Tazi/Tashi how did we get to Saka? And yes Tazik which is Persian for Arab was first used in Central Asia for Arabs before it became the name of Central Asian Persian speakers.
I didn't say stan you added that
Map of Sakastan ( Land of The Sakas / The Shakas ) .
Wattam ( الوتم ) is an ancient phonetic linguistic phenomenon, which consists of changing the letter ( s / sh) to the letter ( t / d ) or vice versa .
Kashkash ( كشكشة ) is an ancient linguistic phonetic phenomenon, which is the changing of the letter ( k / g ) into letter ( sh ) .
k becomes sh .
Sakastan / Sagestān → Tajikistan
Saka / Shaka → Dashi / Tashi
Saka Era (The Shakas) - Ancient Indian History For UPSC
Saka Era began with the rule of The Sakas (The Shakas), alternatively known as Indo-Scythians who invaded northwest India in the first century BC.
Saka Era began with the rule of The Sakas (The Shakas), alternatively known as Indo-Scythians who invaded northwest India in the first century BC.
so the abbasid tried to invade, cuz arabia was ruled by them at that time
