Khwarazmian
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The name Khwarazmian (also Khwarezmian, Khwarizmim, Khorezmian, Chorasmian, Carizmian, and others) may refer to:
Places and peoples
- Khwarazm, a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia
- Khwarazmshah, the title of various rulers of Khwarazm from four different dynasties
- Khwarazmian Empire, a Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim empire that ruled large parts of present-day Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran from about 1077 to 1231
- Khwarazmian dynasty, its ruling dynasty of Khwarazmshahs
- Khwarazmian army between 1231 and 1246, which sacked Jerusalem in 1244
Languages and scripts
- Khwarezmian language (6th–13th century), an extinct East Iranian language
- Chorasmian (script), script used in writing the (Iranian) Khwarazmian language
- Chorasmian (Unicode block), the Unicode block containing the script
- Khorezmian language (Turkic) (13th–14th century), an extinct Turkic language
See also
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