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Battle of Dandanaqan

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Turkmenistan

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Dandanaqan (1040), part of the Seljuk Wars of Expansion. Seljuk Turks defeated Ghaznavids.

Belligerents2

Seljuk Turks
Ghaznavids

ON THE MAPGreat Seljuk EmpireGhaznavid Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFWars of the Seljuk Empire

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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