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Central Asia and Iran

Aq Qoyunlu
Persianate, Sunni-Muslim Turkoman confederation (1378–1508)
Battle of Nahavand
Military engagement between the Rashidun Arab Muslim army and the Persian Sasanian army in 642 CE
Buyid dynasty
Iranian dynasty which ruled over Iraq and central and southern Iran (934-1062)
Chagatai Khanate
Turco-Mongol khanate
Cumania
900s–1241 Turkic confederation in Central Asia and Europe
Eastern Turkic Khaganate
Former empire in the 6th and 7th centuries
First Turkic Khaganate
552–603 khaganate founded by the Göktürks
Ghaznavids
Muslim Persianate dynasty of Turkic mamluk origin
Ghurid dynasty
Iranian Dynasty from Ghor
Göktürks
Turkic people in Inner Asia
Golden Horde
1242–1502 Turkicized Mongol khanate
Hindu Shahis
Medieval Dynasty in North Western South Asia (c. 843–1026)
Ilkhanate
Breakaway khanate of the Mongol Empire
Iranian Intermezzo
Period in history which saw the rise of various Iranian dynasties in the Iranian plateau
Kara-Khanid Khanate
Turkic dynasty
Khwarazmian Empire
Medieval Muslim empire (c. 1077–1231)
Kingdom of Khotan
Iranian Saka Buddhist kingdom (56-1006)
Kipchaks
Medieval Turkic nomadic people of Central Asia and Europe
Loulan Kingdom
Ancient kingdom in modern China
Mongol campaigns in Central Asia
Aspect of history
Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire
1219–1221 conquest of lower Central Asia and Iran by the Mongol Empire
Muslim conquest of Persia
7th-century invasion of Iran by the Arab Rashidun Caliphate
Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
7th and 8th-century conquests in Asia
Oddiyana
A kingdom mentioned in Buddhist literature
Qara Khitai
Historical sinicized empire in Central Asia
Qara Qoyunlu
Turkoman confederation
Saffarid dynasty
861–1002 Eastern Iranian dynasty
Samanid Empire
Iranian empire ruled by the Samanids
Second Turkic Khaganate
Khaganate founded by the Gokturks
Seljuk dynasty
Oghuz Turkic dynasty
Seljuk Empire
Turco-Persian Sunni Muslim empire (1037–1194)
Timurid Empire
Persianate Turco-Mongol empire (1370–1507)
Turco-Persian tradition
Distinctive culture in Central Asia
Turk Shahis
Turkic Central Asian Kingdom
Turkic migration
Historical expansion of the Turkic tribes and Turkic languages into Central Asia, Eastern Europe and West Asia
Uyghur Khaganate
Turkic empire
Western Turkic Khaganate
Former Khaganate
Zhangzhung
Ancient culture and kingdom of western and northwestern Tibet