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1034 Khwarezm passes onto Seljuqid control.

1040 + Migration of the Kipchak/Cuman tribes. The Qays forced the Cu-

mans, who in turn forced the Sharids, who in turn forced the Turk-
men, who in turn forced the Uz, who in turn forced the Pecheneks
westward.

1040+ The Qarakhanid Empire splits in two: one rules over Western

Turkestan (Transoxiana), the other over Eastern Turkestan (the
Tarim Basin).

1040 The war of Dandanakanı: Khurasan comes under Seljuqid control.

The Ghaznavis are forced into Afghanistan and Northern India.

1041-1050 Control over Persia by the Seljukids.

1044-1179 Abdul Khaliq Ghujdawani: an important name in Central Asian

Islamic sufism. His tomb is in Bukhara Ghujdewan.

1048-1140 Abu Yusuf Hamadani: An important name in Central Asian Is-

lamic sufism.

1055 The Seljuqs, under Tughral Beg, capture Baghdad, the Abbasid

capital, from the Buwayhids, establish the Seljuq Sultanate, and
become the official protectors of the Caliphate.

1058 Tughrul Beg takes the title of Sultan.

1060 The pagan Cumans move into the Russian steppe.

1063 On the death of Tughrul Beg, Chagri Beg's son, Alp Arslan, be-

comes the Seljuqid sultan.

1068 The Cumans defeat the South Russian princes.

1069-1070 Kutadgu Bilig written in Kashgar by Yusuf Balasaguni.

1071 + The Seljuqs, under Alp-Arslan, defeat the Byzantine emperor

Romanus Diogenes at the Battle of Manzikert and establish the
Turkish sultanate of Rum in Anatolia.

1072 Melik Shah (1072-1092) becomes the Seljuqid sultan. The golden

age of the Seljuqids.

1072-1074 Divanu Lughati't-Turk written in Baghdad by Mahmud Kashgari.

1073 The Seljuqs defeat the Qarakhanids.

1091-1100 The establishment of the Ismailid state in Persia.

1092 The death of the Seljuq sultan Malik-Shah, resulting in the divi-

sion of the Sultanate into three parts: Nicaea (Anatolia), Hamadan
(Persia), and Merv (Transoxiana and Khurasan).

1093-1166 Ahmed-i Yesevi, founder of the first Turkish tariqa, lives in

Turkistan (Kazakhistan).

1097-1231 The Khwarezm State.

1122 The Russians defeat the Cumans.