title: Afrasiyab
text: # Afrasiyab
  
  Afrasiyab, Afrasiab, Afrosiyab, or Afrosiyob may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * Afrasiyab (Samarkand), an ancient site of Northern Samarkand (present day Uzbekistan)
     * Afrasiab Museum of Samarkand, a museum on the site
  * Afrasiab, Iran, a village in Kurdistan Province
  
  ## People
  
  * Afrasiyab dynasty, an Iranian Shia dynasty of Tabaristan (present-day Mazandaran province, Iran) 1349–1504
     * Kiya Afrasiyab, founder and first ruler of the dynasty, reigned 1349–1359
  * Afrasiyab I of Basra, originator of the title The Prince of Basra in 1596
  * Afrasiyab Badalbeyli (1907–1976), Soviet Azerbaijani composer
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Afrasiab, a sorcerer and emperor in the Persian epic Shahnameh
  * Afrosiyob, the train service name of high-speed rail in Uzbekistan
  