Uzbek Khanate

This article is about the specific polity Uzbek Khanate and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Was a major state in Central Asia, ruling over most of modern-day Uzbekistan, much of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and parts of southern Russia.

Establishment

January 1429: Abu'l-Khayr Khan founded the Uzbek Khanate.

Chronology

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1. Events

January 1468: In 1458, Janibek Khan and Kerei Khan led 200,000 of Abu'l-Khayr Khan's followers eastwards to the Chu River where Esen Buqa II of Moghulistan granted them pasture lands. After Abu'l-Khayr Khan died in 1467, they assumed leadership over most of his followers, and became the Kazakh Khanate.

January 1501: In 1487, Mahmud Khan of the Khanate of Bukhara gave refuge to Muhammad Shaybani, a powerful Uzbek leader. In 1500, Shaybani seized control of Bukhara and Samarkand from the Timurids, establishing his own dynasty in the region.