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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Khwarezm were a
series of states centered on the Amu Darya river delta of the former
Aral Sea, in Greater Iran (now modern Uzbekistan), extending across the
Ust-Urt plateau and possibly as far west as the eastern shores of the
northern Caspian Sea. To the south it bordered Khorasan, to the north
the kingdom of Alans, to the southeast Kangju and Sogdian Transoxiana,
and on the northeast with the Huns of Transoxiana. Its capitals were Old
Urgench (Persian: Kuhna Gurganj) and, from the 17th century on, Khiva,
when Khwarezm became known as the Khanate of Khiva.