Tukhāristān (English spelling)

Japanese: トゥハーリスターン(英語表記)Tukhāristān
Tukhāristān (English spelling)
Refers to the area in northern Afghanistan today. The name was used during the Islamic period and means the land of the Tukhari people. It was also called Tokhara (吐火羅) or Tohara. This area has long been a key transportation point connecting India, Western Asia, and Central Asia, and the name of the Tukhari people is already mentioned in Strabo's Geography, and it is thought that the Da Xia in the Records of the Grand Historian is the same as the Da Xia in the Dayuan chapter. Xuanzang describes them as Tokara in Volume 1 of his Records of the Western Regions of the Great Tang Dynasty, and points out that the writing, language, and customs of the area are different from those of Sogd in Central Asia and the Indian world south of the Hindu Kush Mountains.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
現在のアフガニスタン北部の地域をさす。イスラム時代に使用された名称で,トゥハラ人の土地の意味である。トカラ(吐火羅),トハラともよばれた。この地域は古くからインド,西アジア,中央アジアを結ぶ交通の要衝にあたり,トゥハラ人の名は既にストラボンの《地理誌》に挙げられ,また《史記》大宛伝の大夏がそれにあたると考えられる。玄奘の《大唐西域記》巻一に覩貨邏(とから)として記述され,その地域の文字,言語,風俗が中央アジアのソグドやヒンドゥークシュ山脈以南のインド世界とも異なることを指摘している。

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