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Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
The Muslim conquest of Transoxiana was the gradual conquest of the lands between the Oxus and Jaxartes rivers in Central Asia by the Umayyad and early Abbasid caliphates, from the 670s to the mid-8th century. Qutayba ibn Muslim took Bukhara and Samarkand between 705 and 715, but Sogdian and Türgesh resistance lasted into the 740s; the victory over the Tang at Talas (751) secured the region.
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