Samanid Empire

Samanid Empire was an empire in Transoxiana and Khwarazm (Central and North Asia) that lasted from 819 to 999 CE, about 180 years. Its people spoke Iranian languages (Median, Persian, Parthian, Scythian, Sogdian, Pashto, Kurdish).

Persian governors who made Bukhara a capital of learning, where Rudaki wrote the first great poetry in New Persian and the young Ibn Sina studied. Their slave-soldier trade brought Turks into the Islamic world, and the Kara-Khanids took Bukhara in 999.

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Facts

Dates

819 to 999 CE

Duration

180 years

Type

Empire

Region

Transoxiana and Khwarazm, Central and North Asia

Language family

Iranian

Capital

Bukhara

Came from

• Umayyad and Abbasid Transoxiana 705 to 819 CE

Became

• Kara-Khanid Khanate c. 840 to 1212 CE

Neighbours in Central and North Asia

• Kingdom of Khotan c. 200 BCE to 1006 CE
• Uyghur Kingdom of Qocho c. 843 to 1335 CE
• Kara-Khanid Khanate c. 840 to 1212 CE
• Liao dynasty 916 to 1125 CE
• Uyghur Khaganate 744 to 840 CE
• Kingdom of Kucha c. 100 BCE to 840 CE
• Afrighid dynasty c. 305 to 995 CE
• Yenisei Kyrgyz c. 550 to 1207 CE
• Oghuz Yabgu State c. 750 to 1055 CE
• Kimek Khaganate c. 743 to 1035 CE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Republic of Venice c. 697 to 1797 CE, Europe
• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Europe
• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Middle East
• Swahili city-states c. 800 to 1700 CE, Central and Southern Africa
• Ghana Empire (Wagadu) c. 300 to 1200 CE, North and West Africa
• Holy Roman Empire 962 to 1806 CE, Europe
• Kingdom of Aksum c. 100 to 940 CE, North and West Africa
• Srivijaya c. 650 to 1377 CE, Southeast Asia
• Khmer Empire 802 to 1431 CE, Southeast Asia
• Tiwanaku c. 400 to 1000 CE, South America

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