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Kievan Rus Database (Karakhanids) (250 words) |
 | The Karakhanids proved slightly less oppressive than the Ghaznavids as rulers, because, unlike the Ghaznavids, who relied on professional armies that had to be paid every three months, they relied to a much greater extent on levies of their pastoralist followers. |
| The Karakhanid royal family was probaby of Karluk origin, from the region around Kashgar. |
| 1001: Ghaznavid leader, Mahmud, and the Karakhanid leader, Nasr Ilig, negotiated a treaty that established the border of the two empires at the Amu Darya, thereby recreating the traditional division between Khorasan and Mawar'n-nahr. |
| Struggle between the Samanids and the Karakhanids - Bukhara History (1728 words) |
| Judging by numismatic materials, the Karakhanid internal feuds followed in the area downstream of the Zerafshan. |
| Nevertheless, regardless of loosing its status as capital (the Karakhanids moved their capital to Balasagun in the Chu Valley), Bukhara retained its importance as the center which was coveted by new rulers of the country. |
| Ali had to flee because of the invasion of his rivals, Mahmud Qaznavi and Karakhanid Kadyr-khan Yusuf (416/1025). |
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