Sasanian Khwarazm

Khwarazm
Xwarāzm
Province of the Sasanian Empire
242–c. 350

CapitalKath
Historical eraAntiquity
• Conquest by Shapur I
242
• 
242
• Xionites conquest
c. 350
Succeeded by
Xionites
Today part ofKazakhstan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan

Sasanian Khwarazm (Middle Persian: Xwarāzm) refers to the period that the ancient civilization of Khwarazm was under the suzerainty of the Sasanian Empire from 242[1] to its conquest by the nomadic Xionites in c. 350.

  1. ^ Frye 1983, p. 125.