Khwarezmia

Khwarezmia (also with various alternate spellings, including Chorasmia and Khorezm) was a state located on what was then the coast of the Aral Sea, including modern Karakalpakstan across the Ust-Urt plateau and perhaps extending to as far west as the eastern shores of the North Caspian Sea. To the south it bordered Khorasan, to the north the kingdom of Alans, to the southeast Kangju and Sogdian Transoxiana, and on the northeast with the Huns of Transiaxartesia. Its capitals were Urgench (until Genghis Khan's invasion in 1221) and Khiva (from the 17th century on).

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Aral Sea: The Aral Sea (Kazakh: ???? ??????) is an endorheic inland sea in Central Asia; it lies between Kazakhstan in the north and Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan, in the south. Since the 1960s, the Aral Sea has been shrinking, as the rivers that feed it (the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya) ...

Karakalpakstan: Karakalpakstan (Uzbek: Qoraqalpog'iston Respublikasi or ??????????????? ????????????; Karakalpak: ?????????????? ???????????? or Qaraqalpaqstan Respublikas?) is an autonomous republic of Uzbekistan. It occupies the whole western end of Uzbekistan. The capital is Nukus (Karakalpak: N?kis). The Republ...

Ust-Urt: REDIRECT Ustyurt Plateau...