Through all the centuries Of invasion, however, the peoples Of Sogdiana and the Oxus basin remained Iranian at bottom, preserving an Iranian speech and Iranian institutions. But the political conditions of the country at the period Of the Arab conquests were so complex that it is necessary to trace briefly the course Of their development.

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