Khwarazm Expansion

Name: Khwarazm Expansion
Start: 1081
End: 1090

Type Event Region Central Asia Time 1081–1090

In the 1080s Khwarazm under the Anushtegin dynasty gradually expanded from Seljuk vassalage, controlling the lower Amu Darya and oases around the Ara…

Timeline

1081–1085Residence of Qutb al-Din Muhammad · KhwarazmDescendants of the Anushtegin family consolidated their governorship of Khwarazm in the name of the Seljuk overlords, integrating local Turkic and Iranian nobility and expanding direct control over the downstream oases.
1086–1090Lower Amu Darya · Lower Amu DaryaKhwarazm's power advanced along the lower Amu Darya, annexing neighboring oasis city-states and strengthening irrigation agriculture and trade-route taxation, significantly raising the region's economic strength.

Sources

The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 5: The Saljuq and Mongol Periods — J. A. Boyle (1968)
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition: Khwarazm https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/