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Khanate of Bukhara
In the 1550s, the Khanate of Bukhara under Abdullah Khan II consolidated control of Transoxiana, integrating oasis cities and competing with the Kaza…
Timeline
- 1551–1556Bukhara · BukharaAbdullah Khan II integrated the Uzbek nobility of cities such as Bukhara and Samarkand, establishing an administrative-military system centered on the khan's court. In the mid-1550s, the khanate implemented Islamic judicial and tax systems internally, and maintained control over the oases externally through marriage alliances and force.
- 1556–1560Between the Syr Darya and Amu Darya · TransoxianaIn the later 1550s, the Khanate of Bukhara repeatedly clashed with the Kazakh Khanate and Khiva forces along the steppe-oasis frontier between the Syr Darya and Amu Darya. Abdullah Khan combined cavalry expeditions with fortress garrisons in an attempt to keep nomadic tribes north of the oases.
Sources
- Bukhara https://www.britannica.com/place/Bukhara
- Central Asia in the Sixteenth Century — Beatrice Forbes Manz (2009)