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31: 292: 178: 198: 272: 418: 171:, together with other Central Asian ambassadors. An adjoining inscription reads: "I am Pukarzate, the dapirpat (chancellor) of Chaganian. I arrived here from Turantash, the lord of Chaganian". The King of Chaganian named Turantash may have a been a "Hunnic" Hephthalite ruler, or one of the local Chaghan Khudah, who seem to have coexisted with the Hephthalites. 472:, the governor of Chaghaniyan was a certain Abu'l-Qasem, who was the son-in-law of Mas'ud, and may have been a Muhtajid. Some years later, Abu'l-Qasem had to temporarily leave the province due to an invasion by Karakhanids. No more rulers of Chaghaniyan are mentioned after this, and only a few years later the 440:
Some time later, Abu 'Ali was sent on an expedition to quell a rebellion near Chaghaniyan under a self-proclaimed prophet known as Mahdi. Abu 'Ali managed to successfully defeat and capture the latter and then had his head sent to Bukhara. In ca. 951/2, Abu 'Ali's son Abu'l Muzaffar Abdallah died in
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managed to make the Chaghan Khudah, whose name is mentioned as Tish, acknowledge Umayyad authority. The real reason for Tish's submission, however, was to gain aid in defeating the local rulers of Akharun and Shuman in northern Tokharistan, who had been making incursions against him. Qutayba shortly
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In 955, Abu 'Ali and one of his sons died of the plague. Their bodies were shortly brought to Chaghaniyan where they were buried. A certain Muhtajid prince, Abu'l Muzaffar ibn Muhammad, probably the grandson of 'Abu Ali, was then appointed as the new ruler of Chaghaniyan. However, according to some
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When the news of the re-capture of Bukhara arrived to Abu 'Ali, he once again marched towards Bukhara, but was defeated by an army sent by Nuh and withdrew back to Chaghaniyan. After some time, he left the region and tried to obtain support from other Samanid vassals. Meanwhile, Nuh had Chaghaniyan
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and installed him as ruler in Bukhara when he took the city in 947. Abu 'Ali, now having secured his position, returned to Chaghaniyan. Ibrahim, however, was unpopular with the people of Bukhara, and Nuh soon retaliated by retaking the city and blinding Ibrahim and two brothers.
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ravaged and its capital sacked. Another battle shortly ensured between Abu 'Ali and a Samanid army in Tokharistan, which resulted in a Samanid victory. Fortunately for Abu 'Ali, he managed to secure the support of other Samanid vassals, such as the rulers of
177: 355:, Chaghaniyan was once again a vassal of the Umayyad Caliphate. After this, the Chaghan Khudahs begin to fade from the sources. In the late 8th-century Chaghaniyan fell under the direct control of the 264:, against the Arabs. Nevertheless, the Arabs managed to emerge victorious. However, the Rashidun Caliphate soon fell into civil war, and was conquered by another Arab family, who founded the 315:, the expeditions against Chaghaniyan and other areas east of the Oxus river seemingly indicated “a methodical plan of conquest” of Soghdiana by Ziyad. In 705, the Arab general 452:, who had replaced the Samanids as the dominant power in Transoxiana and Khurasan. In 1025, an unnamed Muhtajid ruler and other Ghaznavid vassals joined the Ghaznavid ruler 480:(r. 1063–1072), his brother Ilyas ibn Chaghri Beg was appointed as the governor of Chaghaniyan. By the 12th-century, the name of the region itself ceases to be used. 383:(914-943), who in return, rewarded him by appointing him as the governor of Khorasan. In 939, Abu Bakr Muhammad fell ill and was replaced from his post by his son 50:. An adjoining inscription reads: "I am Pukarzate, the dapirpat (chancellor) of Chaganian. I arrived here from Turantash, the lord of Chaganian". 648-651 CE. 141:
suzerainty, while the territories south of the Oxus were nominally controlled by the Sasanian Empire. The territories under the Turks rebelled in 581 CE.
197: 437:, and in the end made peace with Nuh, who allowed him to keep Chaghaniyan in return for sending his son Abu'l Muzaffar Abdallah as hostage to Bukhara. 351:, where they were defeated and the Chaghan Khudah was killed. After the battle, most of Khorasan except Chaghaniyan remained under Arab control. Under 394:
dismissed Abu 'Ali from the governorship of Khurasan after hearing complaints of the latter's harsh rule, and sought to replace him with a Turk, the
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Hephthalite coin of the Principality of Chaghaniyan, with crowned King and Queen, in
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Coin of an uncertain Chaghan Khudah, in Sasanian style. Chaghaniyan, 7th century CE
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control. By the late 7th-century, Chaghaniyan came under the control of presumably
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an accident and his corpse was shortly sent to Chaghaniyan, where he was buried.
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sources, was a medieval region and principality located on the right bank of the
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By the end of the 10th-century, the Muhtajid dynasty became a vassal of the
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defeated the two rulers, and forced them to acknowledge Umayyad authority.
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in the 8th-century. Chaghaniyan appears as "Saghaniyan", north of the Oxus.
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other sources, Abu 'Ali was succeeded by his relative Abu'l-Hasan Taher.
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in 563-567 CE. They resettled in Chaganian and other territories of
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Afrasiab Sogdian inscription mentioning the embassy of Turantash
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During its early history, the region often shifted between
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also launched an expedition into the region. According to
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Qadir-khan Yusuf. During the reign of Mahmud's successor
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Dani, Ahmad Hasan; Litvinsky, B. A. (January 1996).
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took control of the region. During the reign of the
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Index

Chaganian

Chaganian
Varkhuman
Samarkand
Afrasiyab murals
Middle Persian
Persian
Arabic
Oxus River
Samarkand
Hephthalite
Denov
Termez
Sasanian Empire
First Turkic Khaganate
Tokharistan
Oxus
Western Turk
Sasanian coins
Khusrau I
Varkhuman
Samarkand
Afrasiyab murals
Hephthalite coin of the Principality of Chaghaniyan, with crowned King and Queen, in Byzantine fashion, circa 550-650 CE. Legend in Sogdian.
Byzantine fashion
Sogdian
Afrasiab Sogdian inscription mentioning the embassy of Turantash
Sasanian
Hephthalite

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