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921-922
The ambassador to the caliph of Baghdad, Ibn Fadlan, goes to the
Volga Bulgars.
930
The Turkic Qarakhanid dynasty is established, with its initial cen-
ter in Kashgar.
930-950
The Qarakhanid leader, Satuq Bughra Khan, accepts Islam. The
birth of the first Muslim Turkic dynasty in Central Asia.
932-1055
The Buwayhid dynasty in Western Persia.
947-1125
The Liao dynasty (Kitay origin) in Northern China.
950
The Pecheneks live in the environs of Emba ve Yayik.
951-960
The Qarluqs accept Islam. The Hazars are defeated by the Rus-
sians, Guz and Pecheneks.
962
The Turkic Ghaznavid dynasty is established in Afghanistan.
965
The Kievan ruler Svyatoslav crushes Khazar political power in
the Russian steppe region.
973-1048
Islamic scholar Biruni. He wrote astronomy, mathematics, phys-
ics, chemistry, medicine, history topics.
980-1037
Islamic philosopher and thinker Avicenna. His work
The Canon of
Medicine
studied for centuries.
985
The Khwarezms leave Hazar. Volga Bulgar-Pechenek alliance
against the Rus-Uz alliance.
985
The Seljuq Turks, a ruling tribe of the Oghuz, move to the vicinity
of Bukhara.
990+
The pro-Shi'ite Persian Buwayhids end the political power of the
Abbasid Caliphate by seizing control of Iraq and much of Iran.
995-1017
The Mamunids in Khwarezm.
999
The Ghaznavids defeat the Samanids in Khurasan and the Qara-
khanids capture Bukhara, the Samanid capital.
1000 +
200,000 Qerait and the khans in the vicinity of the Orhun and
Selenge rivers accept Nestorian Christianity.
1001-1010
The strengthening of Ghazna. The division of Central Asia.
1008
The Belkh war: Mahmud of Ghazni defeated the Qarakhanid
armies. Khurasan remained in the hands of the Ghaznavids.
1017-1034
Ghaznavid sovereignty in Khwarezm.
1021-1030
The Mongols and Merkits of Siberia arrive in the steppes.
1028
The Tanguts occupy Kanchou. The Kansu Uighurs lose their in-
dependence.
1028-1029
The Seljuqid leaders Chaghri and Tughrul invade Nishpour and
Merv.
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