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Central Asia Timeline

By Kallie Szczepanski, About.com

Timeline of Central Asian history from the Aryan invasion through the fall of the Soviet Union.

661 Umayyad Caliphate established in Damascus, Shia/Sunni split in Islam

682-683 Turkic peoples revolt, expel Chinese from Mongolia

709-713 Arabs capture Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, and Kashgar

748 Chinese invade Ferghana Valley

751 Battle of Talas, Arabs defeat the Chinese

840 Kirghiz throw Uighurs out of Mongolia

840 Uighurs migrate to Tarim region, western China

900 Samanids defeat Saffarids, take all of Persia

932 Qarakhanid Dynasty established, capital at Kashgar

962 Ghaznavid Dynasty established in Afghanistan

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