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Kart Dynasty Khorasan in the 1340s
The Kart dynasty ruled Herat and western Khorasan since the late 13th century, maintaining local autonomy in the 1340s amid the Ilkhanate's collapse …
Timeline
- 1341–1345Herat · KhorasanIn the early 1340s, the Kart dynasty maintained independent rule centered on Herat in western Khorasan, using the power vacuum left by the Ilkhanate's collapse to consolidate local administration and the tax system.
- 1346–1348Khorasan · KhorasanIn the mid-1340s, the Kart dynasty engaged in repeated conflicts and peace negotiations with neighboring powers such as the Sarbadar regime and the Chobanids along the Khorasan frontier, surviving amid a fragmented landscape.
- 1349–1350Herat · KhorasanBy the late 1340s, Herat under Kart rule had become an important commercial and cultural center of Khorasan, with developments in irrigated agriculture and handicrafts, laying part of the groundwork for the later Timurid-era 'Herat Renaissance'.
Sources
- Kart dynasty https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kart-dynasty
- The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 6 — Peter Jackson, Lawrence Lockhart (1986)