transoxiana

  1. PC: No An Lushan Rebellion, Arab-Chinese War?

    When the Muslims exploded out of Arabia, they did not stop at fighting their immediate foes, the Byzantine and Sassanian Empires. Rather, they continued beyond them, conquering lands from Iberia to India. But when the Umayyads and later the Abbasids attack the region of Central Asia known as...
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    WI: Successful conspiracy of Al-Afshin?

    What if Khaydar Al-Afshin, governor of Transoxiana during the early period of the Abbasid Caliphate who was instrumental in the struggle against the northwestern Iranian rebel Babak Khorramdin and the Byzantines in Anatolia, had succeeded in his political struggle against the Abdullah ibn Taher...
  3. GauchoBadger

    WI: Turgesh victory at the Defile (731)

    The Battle of the Defile (731 AD, 109 AH) was a military engagement between forces of the Umayyad Caliphate, led by the governor of Khorasan, and forces of the Turgesh Khaganate, led by the warlord Suluk, who had, since ten years earlier, been raiding and ravaging Transoxiana after kicking the...

  4. Maximal western expansion of Tang Dynasty?

    How far west could the Tang have expanded into Central Asia? Could Transoxiana have been secured and controlled for a long time, or was it just too far away?
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