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B. Spuler, "Central Asia in the Mongol and Timurid periods", published in Encyclopædia Iranica(d), Online Edition, 2006/7, (LINKArhivat în , la Wayback Machine.): "... Like his father, Olōğ Beg was entirely integrated into the Persian Islamic cultural circles, and during his reign Persian predominated as the language of high culture, a status that it retained in the region of Samarqand until the Russian revolution 1917 [...] Ḥoseyn Bāyqarā encouraged the development of Persian literature and literary talent in every way possible ..."
B. Spuler, "Central Asia in the Mongol and Timurid periods", published in Encyclopædia Iranica(d), Online Edition, 2006/7, (LINKArhivat în , la Wayback Machine.): "... Like his father, Olōğ Beg was entirely integrated into the Persian Islamic cultural circles, and during his reign Persian predominated as the language of high culture, a status that it retained in the region of Samarqand until the Russian revolution 1917 [...] Ḥoseyn Bāyqarā encouraged the development of Persian literature and literary talent in every way possible ..."
Independent Sogdiana: Lane Fox (1973, 1986:533) remarcă Quintus Curtius Rufus(d), vi.3.9: neavând niciun satrap să le stăpânească, se aflau sub comanda lui Bessus(d) la Gaugamela, conform lui Arrian, iii.8.3.
„Provincia Sogdia era în Asia ce era Macedonia în Grecia: un tampon între o civilizație fragilă și barbarii veșnic agitați de dincolo, fie ei sciții din timpul lui Alexandru, ori mai târziu hunii albi, turcii și mongolii, care în cele din urmă au năvălit spre sud și au distrus țesătura subțire a societății iraniene.” (Robin Lane Fox(d), Alexandru cel Mare (1973) 1986:301).
B. Spuler, "Central Asia in the Mongol and Timurid periods", published in Encyclopædia Iranica(d), Online Edition, 2006/7, (LINKArhivat în , la Wayback Machine.): "... Like his father, Olōğ Beg was entirely integrated into the Persian Islamic cultural circles, and during his reign Persian predominated as the language of high culture, a status that it retained in the region of Samarqand until the Russian revolution 1917 [...] Ḥoseyn Bāyqarā encouraged the development of Persian literature and literary talent in every way possible ..."
