State

Ghaznavid Empire

Also known as Ghaznavid

The Ghaznavid Empire was a Turkic Muslim dynasty based at Ghazni in present-day Afghanistan, which ruled Khorasan and raided deep into northern India in the late tenth and eleventh centuries. Its defeat by the Seljuks at the Battle of Dandanaqan in 1040 opened Iran to the Seljuk Empire.

Ghaznavid Empire
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Ghaznavid Empire. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/ghaznavid-empire
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