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Name: Karakhanid Khanate

Type: Polity

Start: 841 AD

End: 1041 AD

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Was a Turkic khanate in Central Asia emerged in the 9th century.

Establishment


  • January 841: Independence of the Karluks from the Uyghurs.
  • Chronology


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    1. Tibet - Era of Fragmentation


    Was an era of disunity in Tibetan history lasting from the death of the Tibetan Empire's last emperor, Langdarma, in 842 until Drogön Chögyal Phagpa became the Imperial Preceptor of the three provinces of Tibet in 1253, under the Yuan dynasty.

  • January 844: Karasahr and Kucha are occupied by the Kingdom of Qocho.
  • January 852: Khotan becomes independent.

  • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 844: In 843 a group of Uyghurs migrated southward under the leadership of Pangtele and occupied Karasahr and Kucha from Tibetan Empire, establishing the Kingdom of Qocho.

  • January 993: In 992, a Karakhanid, Harun Bughra Khan, grandson of the paramount tribal chief of the Karluk confederation Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan, captured Bukhara, the Samanid capital.

  • January 994: The Samanids returned to Bukhara.

  • January 1000: In 999, Karakhanid ruler Nasr b. Ali, a nephew of Harun, took possession of Bukhara, meeting little resistance.

  • January 1007: Turkic-Islamic conquest of Buddhist Khotan.

  • January 1035: In 1034 Harun, who was Ghaznavid Governor in Khwarazm, revolted against sultan Masʽud, establishing an independent domain.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1042: In 1041, the Karakhanid Khanate was definitively divided into a western kingdom and an eastern kingdom.
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