Editing Sogdia (section)

=== Sasanian satrapy (260–479 AD) ===
Historical knowledge about Sogdia is somewhat hazy during the period of the [[Parthian Empire]] (247 BC – 224 AD) in Persia.<ref name="dresden 1981 p5">Mark J. Dresden (1981), "Introductory Note", in Guitty Azarpay, Sogdian Painting: the Pictorial Epic in Oriental Art, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, p. 5, {{ISBN|0-520-03765-0}}.</ref><ref name="dresden 2003 p1217">Mark J. Dresden (2003), "Sogdian Language and Literature", in Ehsan Yarshater, The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol III: The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanian Periods, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 1217, {{ISBN|0-521-24699-7}}.</ref> The subsequent [[Sasanian Empire]] of Persia conquered and incorporated Sogdia as a satrapy in 260,<ref name="dresden 1981 p5" /> an [[Shapur I's inscription at the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht|inscription dating to the reign of Shapur I]] claiming "Sogdia, to the mountains of [[Tashkent]]" as his territory, and noting that its limits formed the northeastern Sasanian borderlands with the [[Kushan Empire]].<ref name="dresden 2003 p1217" /> However, by the 5th century the region was captured by the rival [[Hephthalite Empire]].<ref name="dresden 1981 p5" />