Significant751 CE

Battle of Talas

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Kyrgyzstan · Talas · Central Asia · Silk Road

Estimated casualties

100Ksingle estimate · no range published

Tang-Abbasid conflict over Central Asia control, marked limit of Tang expansion.

Belligerents3

Tang Dynasty
Abbasid Caliphate
Karluks

ON THE MAPTang DynastyAbbasid Caliphate

Conflict graph

PART OFTang dynasty military campaigns

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Talas (751 CE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-talas · Sources & methodology