Afrasiyab

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Afrasiyab, Afrasiab, Afrosiyab, or Afrosiyob may refer to:

Places

• 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

• 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

• Afrasiab, a sorcerer and emperor in the Persian epic Shahnameh
• Afrosiyob, the train service name of high-speed rail in Uzbekistan

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