Karkota Empire

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Was a dynasty that ruled over the Kashmir valley.

Establishment

January 626: The Karkota Empire was founded by Durlabhavardhana during the lifetime of Harshavardhan.

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.

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 741: Malwa was lost to Gurjara-Pratiharas before the arab invasion (735-736).

January 741: Gurjara-Pratihara ruler Nagabhata I (730-756) extended his control east and south from Mandor, conquering Malwa as far as Gwalior and the port of Bharuch in Gujarat.

January 746: In 745, Gao Xianzhi marched across the Pamirs with 10,000 men and conquered Little Balur (Gilgit), a client state of the Tibetan Empire.

January 751: According to tradition Kutlehar state was founded around 750 AD by an ancestral king named Raja Gopal.

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

3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 666: The Turk Shahis or Kabul Shahis were a dynasty of Western Turk, or mixed Western Turk-Hephthalite, origin, that ruled from Kabul and Kapisa to Gandhara in the 7th to 9th centuries CE.

January 711: In 710 the Tibetan Empire conquered Lesser Bolü, which included Gilgit (today in Pakistan).

January 738: In 737, the Tibetans launched an attack against the king of Bru-za (Gilgit), who asked for Chinese help, but was ultimately forced to pay homage to Tibet.