Chaghaniyan

Ambassador from Chaganian named Pukarzate (identification of the forehead), visiting king Varkhuman of Samarkand. An adjoining inscription reads: "I am Pukarzate, the dapirpat (chancellor) of Chaganian. I arrived here from Turantash, the lord of Chaganian". 648-651 CE. Afrasiyab murals, Samarkand.[1][2][3][4]

Chaghaniyan (Middle Persian: Chagīnīgān; Persian: چغانیان Chaghāniyān), known as al-Saghaniyan in Arabic sources, was a medieval region and principality located on the right bank of the Oxus River, to the south of Samarkand.

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