Ushrusana

Ushrūsana (farsi اُشروسنه o Usrūshana, اسروشنه, nota oggi come Istarawshan (attualmente) Sudujshana, Ustrushana, Chao orientale, è una regione iranica ^[1] della Transoxiana. L'Ushrusana si estende a sud del grande ansa meridionale del Syr Darya e si allunga all'incirca tra Samarcanda e Khujand. La sua capitale era Banjikat. Non è chiara in base alle fonti l'esatta origine del nome persiano, ma il Hudud al-'Alam (tr. Minorsky), indica come termine originario *Sorušna^[1].

^ ^a ^b C. Edmund Bosworth (2005), "Osrušana", in Encyclopaedia Iranica. Online Accessed November 2010 OSRUŠANA – Encyclopaedia Iranica: "The region was little urbanized, and it long preserved its ancient Iranian feudal and patriarchal society" (...) "At the time of the Arab incursions into Transoxania, Osrušana had its own line of Iranian princes, the Afšins (Ebn Ḵordāḏbeh, p. 40), of whom the most famous was the general of the caliph Moʿtaṣem (q.v. 833-42), the Afšin Ḵayḏar or Ḥaydar b. Kāvus (d. 841; see Afšin)" (...) "The region was little urbanized, and it long preserved its ancient Iranian feudal and patriarchal society."

[IranicaOsrushana-1] C. Edmund Bosworth (2005), "Osrušana", in Encyclopaedia Iranica. Online Accessed November 2010 OSRUŠANA – Encyclopaedia Iranica: "The region was little urbanized, and it long preserved its ancient Iranian feudal and patriarchal society" (...) "At the time of the Arab incursions into Transoxania, Osrušana had its own line of Iranian princes, the Afšins (Ebn Ḵordāḏbeh, p. 40), of whom the most famous was the general of the caliph Moʿtaṣem (q.v. 833-42), the Afšin Ḵayḏar or Ḥaydar b. Kāvus (d. 841; see Afšin)" (...) "The region was little urbanized, and it long preserved its ancient Iranian feudal and patriarchal society."

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