Afrasiyab

Afrasiyab, also spelled Afrasiab, Afrosiyab, or Afrosiyob, may refer to:

Afrasiyab (Samarkand) -an ancient site north of Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Afrasiyab, Iran, a village in Kurdistan Province
Afrasiab - a sorcerer and emperor who appears in the Persian epic Shahnameh and later in the Urdu Dastaan and Tilism-e-Hoshruba. He is also mentioned briefly by Muhammad ibn Jafar Narshakhi
Afrasiyab Badalbeyli -an Azerbaijani composer
Afrosiyob (train) (or Afrosiyab), a high-speed train of Uzbekistan

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