Khwarazm Shah Tekish's Expansion (1180s)

Timeline

1. 1181–1182Urgench · KhwarazmTekish had established control over Khwarazm's core region by the 1170s. In the early 1180s he reorganized his army and administration, using Urgench as a base to push toward the fragmenting Karakhanid realm and the declining Western Liao frontier, seeking control of Silk Road hubs.
2. 1183–1186Samarkand · SamarkandTekish led his army into Transoxiana, defeating or forcing local Karakhanid powers into submission and occupying commercial centers such as Samarkand. This gave Khwarazm direct control of Silk Road trade revenues and further squeezed Western Liao suzerainty in southern Turkestan.
3. 1187–1190Transoxiana · TransoxianaBy around 1190 Tekish had brought many city-states formerly under Karakhanid and Western Liao spheres into Khwarazm's suzerainty. Khwarazm became the most expansionist Islamic polity from the Caspian to the eastern Pamirs, altering the balance of power in Central Asia at the end of the 12th century.