title: Khwarazmian
text: # Khwarazmian
  
  The name Khwarazmian (also Khwarezmian, Khwarizmim, Khorezmian, Chorasmian, Carizmian, and others) may refer to:
  
  ## Places and peoples
  
  * Khwarazm, a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia
     * Khwarazmshah, the title of various rulers of Khwarazm from four different dynasties
  * Khwarazmian Empire, a Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim empire that ruled large parts of present-day Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran from about 1077 to 1231
     * Khwarazmian dynasty, its ruling dynasty of Khwarazmshahs
     * Khwarazmian army between 1231 and 1246, which sacked Jerusalem in 1244
  
  ## Languages and scripts
  
  * Khwarezmian language (6th–13th century), an extinct East Iranian language
     * Chorasmian (script), script used in writing the (Iranian) Khwarazmian language
     * Chorasmian (Unicode block), the Unicode block containing the script
  * Khorezmian language (Turkic) (13th–14th century), an extinct Turkic language
  