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Name: kabul shahi

Type: Cluster

Start: 666 AD

End: 1026 AD

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The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Turk Shahi
  • Hindu Shahi
  • Establishment


  • January 666: The Nezak-Alchons were replaced by the Turk shahi dynasty, first in Zabulistan and then in Kabulistan.
  • Chronology


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    1. Early Muslim conquests


    Were the military campaigns by the first three Islamic Caliphates (the Caliphate of Muhammad, the Rashidun Caliphate and the Umayyad Caliphate) that led to the Islamic conquest of most of the Middle East as well as the Iberian Peninsula.

    1.1.Muslim conquest of Transoxiana, Ferghana and Khorasan

    Were the 7th and 8th century conquests, by Umayyad and Abbasid Arabs, of Transoxiana, the land between the Oxus (Amu Darya) and Jaxartes (Syr Darya) rivers, a part of Central Asia that today includes all or parts of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.

  • January 716: Umayyad commander Qutayba ibn Muslim conquered the strategic Central Asian cities of Bukhara, Samarkand, Khwarezem and Farghana between 705 and 715 CE, annexing nearly the whole of Transoxiana north of the Iranian plateau and bordering the contemporary Tang dynasty of China.

  • 1.2.Islamic conquest of Sindh

    Was the invasion of Sindh (Pakistan) initiated by the Umayyad Caliphate.

  • January 713: In the year 712, Muhammad bin Qasim, an Umayyad general, sailed from the Persian Gulf into Sindh and conquered both Sindh and the lower Punjab (corresponding to Multan), both regions in northwestern India straddling the course of the Indus River.

  • 2. Wars of conquest of Muktapida


    In the VIII century Muktapida, an Indian king of the Karkota dynasty of Kashmir, created a short-lived empire covering most of India.

  • January 741: Karkota ruler Lalitaditya Muktapida conquered extensive territories in India and Central Asia.
  • January 761: Karkota ruler Lalitaditya Muktapida conquered extensive territories in India and Central Asia.

  • 3. Conquests of Abu Ibrahim Isma´il ibn Ahmad


    Expansion during the rule of Abu Ibrahim Isma'il ibn Ahmad in the Samanid Empire.

  • January 901: The Shahi dynasty ruled Kabul until around 900 CE when the territory was conquered by the Samanid Empire, a Persian dynasty known for their cultural and intellectual achievements. This marked the end of Shahi rule in Kabul.

  • 4. Conquests of Mahmud


    Expansion during the rule of Mahmud of the Ghaznavids.

  • January 1027: Trilochana Pala of the Hindu Shahi Dynasty was killed in the conquest campaigns of Mahmud of Ghazni in 1021. His sons fled to Kashmir and five years later (1026) the last king of the dynasty, Bhima Pala, was defeated by the Ghaznavids.

  • 5. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 681: The Zunbils ruled the region of Zabul in present-day Afghanistan from the early 7th century.

  • January 701: Between the 7th and 9th centuries, the Kingdom of Kapisa was ruled by the Turk Shahi house.

  • January 851: The Hindu Shahis or Kabul Shahis (850-1026 CE) were a Hindu dynasty that held sway over the Kabul Valley (Eastern Afghanistan), Gandhara (modern-day Pakistan), and present-day Northwestern India, during the early medieval period in the Indian subcontinent.

  • January 880: The Hindu Shahi dynasty, ruled by King Jayapala, recaptured Kabul in 879 CE after it had briefly fallen to the Abbasid Caliphate. This marked a significant victory for the Hindu Shahi over the Muslim rulers in the region.

  • January 988: In 986-87 CE, Peshawar's first encounter with Muslim armies occurred when Sabuktigin invaded the area and fought the Hindu Shahis under their king, Anandpal.

  • January 991: Sabuktigin, the founder of the Ghaznavid Empire, began expanding the Empire by capturing Samanid and Kabul Shahi territories, including most of what is now Afghanistan and part of Pakistan.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1027: Trilochana Pala of the Hindu Shahi Dynasty was killed in the conquest campaigns of Mahmud of Ghazni in 1021. His sons fled to Kashmir and five years later (1026) the last king of the dynasty, Bhima Pala, was defeated by the Ghaznavids.
  • Selected Sources


  • Schwartzberg, J. E. (1992); A Historical Atlas of South Asia, Chicago (USA), p. 146
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