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Ghaznavids – Medieval Islam
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Ghaznavids – Medieval Islam

History, India, Islam, West Asia

23 07, 2017

Ghaznavids – Medieval Islam

By Karen Carr|2019-07-05T11:22:44-07:00July 23rd, 2017|History, India, Islam, West Asia|Comments Off on Ghaznavids – Medieval Islam

Ghaznavids: A minaret in Ghazni (Afghanistan), from about 1000 AD Abbasid soldiers Beginning in the 850s AD, the Abbasid caliphs of the Islamic Empire were looking for soldiers they would be able to trust, who [...]

Uzbeks – Uzbekistan and Central Asian History
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Uzbeks – Uzbekistan and Central Asian History

Central Asia, History

31 05, 2017

Uzbeks – Uzbekistan and Central Asian History

By Karen Carr|2019-08-08T15:43:08-07:00May 31st, 2017|Central Asia, History|Comments Off on Uzbeks – Uzbekistan and Central Asian History

Uzbek ruler in his yurt (1509, probably at Samarkand, in Uzbekistan) The Uzbek empire After the collapse of the Mongol Timur's empire in the 1400s AD, many smaller states replaced the [...]