Rise of the Samanid Dynasty

Name: Rise of the Samanid Dynasty
Start: 819

Type Event Region Central Asia Time 819

Around 819 the Samanid family rose in Transoxiana with Abbasid caliphal support, becoming the region's de facto rulers and driving Persian-Islamic cu…

Timeline

819Samarkand · UzbekistanAfter suppressing the rebellion of Rafi ibn Layth, Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun appointed Ghassan ibn Abbas as governor of Samarkand and other places, giving the Samanid family a military-political foothold in Central Asia.
819–900Bukhara · UzbekistanThe Samanid family governed Transoxiana's cities over generations, with Bukhara as capital, gradually breaking free of direct Abbasid control to establish a nominally subordinate but de facto autonomous local dynasty, and promoting New Persian literature and Islamic scholarship.

Sources

Sāmānid Dynasty https://www.britannica.com/topic/Samanid-dynasty
The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 4 — R. N. Frye (ed.) (1975)