Artav (’rt’w “yang Adil”, juga dieja Artabanus)[3] adalah seorang raja Khwarezmia yang memerintah Khwarezmia di wilayah Asia Tengah pada paruh kedua abad kedua. Dia adalah raja kedua dari kerajaan yang tidak disebutkan namanya di Khwarezmia, yang didirikan oleh pendahulunya, yang namanya tidak diketahui. Pada masa pemerintahannya, Artav memulai pembangunan kota Toprak-Kala, yang menjadi ibu kotanya.[4]
^"The second king of the dynasty was Artav ( ' ri ' w " the just " ; Vainberg , 1977 , p . 52 ). He appears to have begun construction of a new capital , the ruins of which were discovered by Tolstov in 1938 at Toprak - kala"Yar-Shater, Ehsan. Encyclopaedia Iranica (dalam bahasa Inggris). Routledge & Kegan Paul. hlm. 514.
^"Apart from purely archaeological and artistic evidence , the date has been determined from coins of the Kushan kings Vima Kadphises and Kanishka , and of the Khwarazmian king Artav , that were found on the lower floors of some structures . Some economic documents found in the Palace were dated to between 188 and 252 of the Khwarazmian era , i . e . , to within the third century A.D. It should be borne in mind that only an insignificant portion of the archive has survived." in "Bulletin of the Asia Institute" (dalam bahasa Inggris). Wayne State University Press. 1996: 183.
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Bosworth, Yuri Aleksandrovich (1991). "CHORASMIA i. Archeology and pre-Islamic history". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. V, Fasc. 5. C. Edmund Bosworth. hlm. 511–516.
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