Talk:Khwarezmia
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I notice that Korasmian redirects here, presumably because I created the redirect from Crusade :) But then today I also noticed that there are Korasmians mentioned in Herodotus' Histories...are they the same people? That's 1000 years before these Korasmians. (It was actually spelled Chorasmian in the version of Herodotus I have, so maybe they are entirely different.) Adam Bishop 21:54, 15 Sep 2003 (UTC)
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I was also curious about the same question. I have heard of references to Chorasmia dating back to 1300BC and being founded by Sumerians, but there is a pretty massive gap between the two if they are ths same. There is also Chorasan however could this be what Herodotus was refering to. I am suspicious about the name of Khwarezmia since it is so similar to Khorasan and was the state to the north of that province. Also does the Greek name Chalisioi a reference to the resurgent Turkic kingdoms or 1300BC & 600BC-305CE states? Perhaps the real name was something like Khwary but it was documented as Khwar-ezmia because of a similarity of the state's name with a state in the same area which coincidentally had a similar sound and hence the two were confused?
It would be really great if anyone could come up with all the original source materials about the area's name as links for the reader to deduce from.
Kaz