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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.

1405-1530 Timurid Empire rules from Herat, Afghanistan

1453 Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople

1480 Ivan III throws out Mongols, proclaims himself Tsar of Russia

1497 Babur, Timur's grandson and ruler of Ferghana, captures Samarkand

1500 Uzbek Shaybanids seize oasis city of Samarkand

1502 Mongol Golden Horde's final collapse

1504 Kabul falls to Babur

1506-1507 Uzbeks capture Bukhara and Herat

1517 Ottoman Turks defeat the Mamlukes, take Egypt

1522 Babur captures Kandahar

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