Eastern Expansion of the Kara-Khanid Khanate

Name: Eastern Expansion of the Kara-Khanid Khanate
Start: 1041
End: 1050

Type Event Region Central Asia Time 1041–1050

In the 1040s, the Eastern Kara-Khanid Khanate under Ibrahim b. Nasr and his successors pushed eastward, consolidating control over the southern rim o…

Timeline

1041–1045Balasaghun · SemirechyeWith Balasaghun as its political center, the Eastern Kara-Khanid Khanate exploited the Ghaznavid collapse on their eastern front and the Seljuk main force's westward turn to consolidate control over Semirechye and the passes along the northern Tianshan foothills.
1045–1048Khotan · KhotanThe Eastern Kara-Khanid Khanate continued eastward, strengthening Islamic governance and military garrisons in oasis cities such as Khotan and Shule (Kashgar), extending its dominion over the southern rim of the Tarim Basin.
1048–1050Tarim Basin · Tarim BasinBy around 1050, the Eastern Kara-Khanid Khanate's eastern territories were essentially fixed, forming a multipolar pattern in Central Asia alongside the Western Kara-Khanid Khanate (the Samarkand line) and the surviving Seljuk and Ghaznavid forces.

Sources

The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia — Denis Sinor (ed.) (1990)
History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume IV: The Age of Achievement A.D. 750 to the End of the Fifteenth Century — UNESCO (1998)