Samanid Empire
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Was a Persianate Sunni Muslim empire, of Iranian dehqan origin. The empire was centred in Khorasan and Transoxiana, at its greatest extent encompassing Persia and Central Asia.
Establishment
January 893: In 892, the Samanids put an end to the Principality of Ushrusana by seizing all of its lands.
January 893: Isma'il ibn Ahmad, the founder of the Samanid Empire, conquered Bukhara and incorporated it into his expanding empire.
Chronology
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Expansion during the rule of Abu Ibrahim Isma'il ibn Ahmad in the Samanid Empire.
January 894: In 893, the Yenisei Kyrgyz Khaganate invaded the territories of the Karluk Turks, taking Talas.
January 901: Four brothers Nuh, Ahmad, Yahya, and Ilyas founded the Samanid state. Each of them ruled territory under Abbasid suzerainty. In 892, Ismail Samani united the Samanid state under one ruler, thus effectively putting an end to the feudal system used by the Samanids. It was also under him that the Samanids became independent of Abbasid authority. Ismail was thereafter recognized as the ruler of all of Khorasan and Transoxiana by the caliph.Furthermore, he also received the investiture over Tabaristan, Ray and Isfahan.
January 901: Alid Emirate rule over the territory was interrupted by Samanid occupation in 900.
January 901: Chaghaniyan, a region in Central Asia, became a vassal state of the powerful Samanid Empire based in Bukhara by the early 10th century. The Samanids were a Persian dynasty that ruled over a vast territory in the region during this time.
January 901: In 900, Ismail sent an army under Muhammad ibn Harun al-Sarakhsi against Muhammad ibn Zayd, the Zaydi ruler of Tabaristan and Gorgan. The invasion was successful; Muhammad ibn Zayd was killed and Tabaristan was conquered by the Samanids.
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.
January 902: In 901, Amr Saffari was defeated at the battle of Balkh by the Samanids, which reduced the Saffarid dynasty to a minor tributary in Sistan.
Were military raids undertaken by the Rus' between the late 9th century and c. 1041 on the Caspian Sea shores.
2.1.First Caspian expedition of the Rus'
The Rus' undertook the first large-scale expedition in the Caspian Sea in 913. Having arrived on 500 ships, they pillaged in the Georgan region, in the territory of present-day Iran, and more to the west, in Gilan and Mazandaran, taking slaves and goods.
January 914: The Rus' undertook the first large-scale Caspian expedition in 913. Having arrived on 500 ships, they pillaged in the Gorgan region, in the territory of present-day Iran, and more to the west, in Gilan and Mazandaran, taking slaves and goods.
February 914: The Rus' undertook the first large-scale Caspian expedition in 913. After having pillaged the Gorgan, Gilan and Mazandaran (Modern-day Iran), the Rus' forces left these regions.
Expansion during the rule of Mahmud of the Ghaznavids.
January 998: In 997, Mahmud of Ghazni completed the conquest of the Samanid and Shahi territories, including the Ismaili Kingdom of Multan, Sindh, as well as some Buwayhid territory.
January 1000: By 999 AD the domains of the Samanids were split up between the Ghaznavids, who gained Khorasan and Afghanistan, and the Karakhanids, who took Transoxiana.
January 912: Ahmad invaded Sistan. By 911, Sistan was under complete Samanid control.
January 915: The Alid Emirate was restored in 914 by a new Alid branch.
January 924: Sistan passed briefly to Abbasid control, but become independent again under the Saffarid Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad, but the dynasty was now a minor power isolated in Sistan.
January 929: Second conquest of the Alid Emirate by the Samanids in 928.
January 931: Central iran with Hamadan, Kashan e Isfahan conquered by Ziyarid Dynasty.
January 931: Ibn Ziyar (r. c. 931-935), a noble military leader from Gilan, took advantage of the collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate and the rebellion of a Samanid general to establish an independent rule on the southern coast of the Caspian Sea.
January 933: The Banu Ilyas were an Iranian dynasty of Sogdian origin which ruled Kerman from 932.
January 940: In 939, the Samanid governor Abu 'Ali Chaghani attacked Gorgan, a city in Iran. Vushmgir, the Ziyarid ruler of Gorgan, sought aid from Makan, a local ruler, but the city eventually fell to the Samanid forces after a prolonged siege.
January 969: Banu Ilyas is acquired by the Buyid Dynasty.
January 978: The governors of Ghazna became de facto independent from the Samanids under Sabuktigin, who established the Ghaznavid Empire.
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.
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 996: The Ma'munids were an independent dynasty of Iranian rulers in Chorasmia.
Disestablishment
January 1000: In 999, Karakhanid ruler Nasr b. Ali, a nephew of Harun, took possession of Bukhara, meeting little resistance.
January 1000: By 999 AD the domains of the Samanids were split up between the Ghaznavids, who gained Khorasan and Afghanistan, and the Karakhanids, who took Transoxiana.
