Afrasiyab
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Afrasiyab, Afrasiab, Afrosiyab, or Afrosiyob may refer to:
Places
[edit]- Afrasiyab (Samarkand), an ancient site of Northern Samarkand (present day Uzbekistan)
- Afrasiab Museum of Samarkand, a museum on the site
- Afrasiab, Iran, a village in Kurdistan Province
People
[edit]- Afrasiyab dynasty, an Iranian Shia dynasty of Tabaristan (present-day Mazandaran province, Iran) 1349–1504
- Kiya Afrasiyab, founder and first ruler of the dynasty, reigned 1349–1359
- Afrasiyab I of Basra, originator of the title The Prince of Basra in 1596
- Afrasiyab Badalbeyli (1907–1976), Soviet Azerbaijani composer
Other uses
[edit]- Afrasiab, a sorcerer and emperor in the Persian epic Shahnameh
- Afrosiyob, the train service name of high-speed rail in Uzbekistan