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Chorasmia (satrapy)
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Chorasmia (Old Persian: ๐ข๐บ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ท๐ก๐น hUvฤrazmiya, ๐ข๐บ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ท๐ก๐ hUvฤrazmiลก) was a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire in Persia. Chorasmia had become part of the Achaemenid Empire in 522 BCE, and it seems to have been ruled by the satrap of Parthia.
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There exists an archaeological site in Kalaly-gyr,[1] modern Turkmenistan, in a rectangular area 1,000 x 600 m surrounded by a defensive wall 15 m thick, and an Achaemenid-style palace at its center, all of which were unfinished, suggesting the Persians' departure from Chorasmia shortly after the beginning of the 4th century BC.[2] By the time of the Persian king Darius III, it had already become an independent kingdom. Its king, Pharasmanes, concluded a peace treaty with Alexander the Great in the winter of 327/328 A.D/C.E.[3] Chorasmia approximately corresponds to the modern-day region of Khwarezm.