Polity Western Kara-Khanid Khanate

This article is about the specific polity Western Kara-Khanid 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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In the 1040s, the Karakhanid Khanate split into the Eastern and Western Khanates.

Establishment

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

Chronology

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1. Conquests of Malik Shah I

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.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

  • January 1073: The Karakhanids, after the death of Alp-Arslan, invaded Tukharistan.

Disestablishment

  • 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.