western kara-khanid khanate
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The cluster includes all forms in which the country has existed since its foundation.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
Western Kara-Khanid Khanate
Western Kara-Khanid Khanate (Seljuks)
Western Kara-Khanid Khanate (Kara Khitan)
Establishment
January 1042: In 1041, the Karakhanid Khanate was definitively divided into a western kingdom and an eastern kingdom.
Chronology
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Expansion during the rule of Malik Shah I in the Seljuk Empire.
April 1073: Malik-Shah managed to repel the Karakhanids and captured Tirmidh.
January 1090: Seljuk Malik-Shah marched to Semirechye, and made the Karakhanid Harun Khan ibn Sulayman, who was the ruler of Kashgar and Khotan, acknowledge him as his suzerain.
January 1090: In 1089, Seljuk Malik-Shah captured Samarkand with the support of the local clergy, and imprisoned its Karakhanid ruler.
January 1073: The Karakhanids, after the death of Alp-Arslan, invaded Tukharistan.
January 1096: In 1089 the Seljuks defeated the Qarakhanids from the western kingdom under the reign of Ahmad I (1081-1095) and occupied Bukhara and Samarkand. Ahmad I could only maintain his power with the support of the Seljuks and the recognition of their sovereignty.
January 1135: In 1134, the city of Balasagun was captured from the Kara-Khanid Khanate by the Qara Khitai, a Turkic dynasty.
January 1138: The Khitans defeated the Western Kara-Khanid Khanate at Khujand in 1137, eventually leading to their control over the Fergana Valley.
January 1142: In 1141, the Qarakhanids had to recognize the sovereignty of the Kara-Khitans.
January 1151: Beginning in the mid-12th century, Ghor expressed its independence from the Ghaznavid Empire.
Disestablishment
January 1181: The Western Kara-Khanid Khanate fell to the Khwarazmian Empire.
