Khwarazmian

The name Khwarazmian (also Khwarezmian, Khwarizmim, Khorezmian, Chorasmian, Carizmian, and others) may refer to:

Places and peoples

• Khwarazm, a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia
  • Khwarazmshah, the title of various rulers of Khwarazm from four different dynasties
• Khwarazmian Empire, a Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim empire that ruled large parts of present-day Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran from about 1077 to 1231
  • Khwarazmian dynasty, its ruling dynasty of Khwarazmshahs
  • Khwarazmian army between 1231 and 1246, which sacked Jerusalem in 1244

Languages and scripts

• Khwarezmian language (6th–13th century), an extinct East Iranian language
  • Chorasmian (script), script used in writing the (Iranian) Khwarazmian language
  • Chorasmian (Unicode block), the Unicode block containing the script
• Khorezmian Turkic language (13th–14th century), an extinct Turkic language

See also

• Al-Khwārizmī (disambiguation)
• Khorasan (disambiguation)