Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?ukharistan - which comprise large parts of today\'s Central Asia - have long been an important frontier zone.
Given its peripheral location, the history of the \'Eastern frontier\' in this period has often been shown through the lens of expanding emp.
In the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods, the region was both an Eastern political boundary for Persian and Islamic empires and a cultural border separating communities of sedentary farmers from pastoral-nomads.
Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?ukharistan - which comprise large parts of today\'s Central Asia - have long been an important frontier zone