Empire977 CE – 1186 · 209 years

Ghaznavid Empire

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Ghaznavid Empire was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim state of Turkic mamluk origin. Flourishing from 977 to 1186, the empire spread from the Oxus to the Indus Valley at its greatest extent. The dynasty was founded by Sabuktigin upon his succession to the rule of Ghazna after the death of his father-in-law, Alp Tigin, who was an ex-general of the Samanid Empire from Balkh.

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Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1100:Ghaznavid Emirate
SNAPSHOT1100
MATCHEDGhaznavid Emirate
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire18

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Eastern Islamic dynastic wars (990–1120)990 CE–1120
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Battle of Peshawar1001
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Battle of Tarq1002
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Battle of Bhera1006
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Battle of Waihand1006
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Battle of Balkh1008
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Battle of Peshawar1008
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Battle of Waihand1008
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Battle of Thaneswar1011
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Battle of Sharwa1019
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Battle of Samarkand1025
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Battle of Somnath1026
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Battle of Nishapur1037
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Battle of Dandanaqan1040
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Battle of Tarq1051
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Battle of Ghazni1148
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Ghurid–Ghaznavid wars1148–86
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Battle of Ghazni1151
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Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 977 CE and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Ghaznavid Empire (977 CE – 1186). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/asia-ghaznavid-empire · Sources & methodology