1060s Samarkand Silk Road Trade

Name: 1060s Samarkand Silk Road Trade
Start: 1061
End: 1070

Type Event Region Central Asia Time 1061–1070

In the 1060s, Samarkand under the western Karakhanid khans remained a key trading hub linking China's Western Regions, the Indian subcontinent, and t…

Timeline

1061–1065Samarkand · TransoxianaCaravans from Kashgar, Khotan, India, and Persia assembled in Samarkand to trade; the market chiefly dealt in silk, cotton cloth, gems, spices, and livestock, while the khans' court levied customs duties on transit goods and issued travel passes to secure the caravans.
1066–1070Samarkand · TransoxianaAround 1068, during a change of khans, merchants adjusted routes to avoid political volatility; some caravans rerouted via Bukhara or detoured southward, yet Samarkand, thanks to its mature infrastructure and financial networks, retained its position as Transoxiana's foremost trading hub.

Sources

S. Frederick Starr, Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane — S. Frederick Starr (2013)