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    Alp-Tegin, (Persian: الپتگین Alptegīn or Alptigīn) or Alptekin, was a Turkic slave commander of the Samanid Empire, who would later become the semi-independent...
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    inscriptions. Some Tegins founded and headed their own states. Alp-Tegin, founder of the Ghazni state, which grew into the Ghaznavid Empire; Arslan Tegin and Bughra...
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    was a Turkic slave who was bought by Alp-Tegin, the commander of the royal guard of the Samanid dynasty. Alp-Tegin established himself as the governor...
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    tributary status. In 962, the Turkic slave commander of the Samanid Empire, Alp-Tegin, attacked the city and besieged the Citadel of Ghazni for four months...
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  • Alp-Tegin, was a Turkic officer, who was the Samanid governor of Ghazna from September 963 to November 966. He was the son and successor of Alp-Tegin...
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    pagan idols in 870 while a much later historian Shabankara'i claims that Alp-Tegin obtained conversion of its ruler in 962. No permanent Arab control was...
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  • conquests.Got martyred by Imren Tegin and Olivia. Gonca Hatun (Emel Dede [tr]; starring in seasons 1–3) was the wife of Boran Alp, and the adoptive sister and...
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  • of the Utpala dynasty. In the final years of Bhima's reign in c. 962, Alp-Tegin, a rebel Turkish chief of the Samanid Empire, had annexed the regions...
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  • likely a vassal of the Samanid Empire. In 962, the Turkic slave commander Alp-Tegin captured Ghazna after besieging the Citadel of Ghazni for four months...
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    Empire, Alp-Tegin, attacked Ghazni and besieged the Citadel of Ghazni for four months. He wrested the town from its ruler Abu Bakr Lawik. Alp-Tegin was accompanied...
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  • evidences of her being a traitor. The father of Kaya Yagbu, Temur Tegin and Batuga Tegin. Kanbolat Görkem Arslan as Saltuk Bey In love with Colpan Han. The...
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  • and wars during Alp Arslan's rule as a Sultan of the Seljuk Empire. In the series, Turkish actor Barış Arduç essays the lead role of Alp Arslan. The series...
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  • the Ghaznavid Empire into the Indian subcontinent by Mahmud. In 962, Alp-Tegin, a Turkic ghulam or slave soldier, who rose to be the commander of the...
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    Empire, Alp-Tegin, attacked Ghazni and besieged the citadel for four months. He wrested Ghazni from the Lawik ruler, Abu Bakr Lawik. Alp-Tegin was accompanied...
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    the campaigns of his father Alp Arslan, along with the latter's vizier Nizam al-Mulk. During one such campaign in 1072, Alp Arslan was fatally wounded...
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    brother Mansur (supported by Fa'iq) and his son Nasr (supported by Alp-Tegin). Alp-Tegin lost, but managed to establish an autonomous governorship in Ghazni...
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  • Anushtegin Gharchai (also spelled Anush-Tegin; Persian: نوشتکین غرچه, romanized: Anūštigin Ḡaṛčaʾī; died 1097) was a Turkic slave commander (ghulam) of...
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    Alp-Tegin, who after his unsuccessful attempt to put the Samanid prince Nasr on the throne, was forced to flee from the court in Bukhara. In 963, Alp-Tegin...
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    successor. Spring – Sabuktigin, a Samanid general, succeeds his father-in-law Alp-Tegin as governor of Ghazna (modern Afghanistan). He enlarges his dominions...
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    Blackwell Publishing, 1998; pg. 370: "Though Turkic in origin [...] Alp Tegin, Sebuk Tegin, and Mahmud were all thoroughly Persianized". J. Meri (Hg.), Medieval...
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    Kabul-Gandhara area by the time of Alp-tegin. According to Firishta, Sabuktigin had already begun raiding Lamghan under Alp-begin. He crossed the Khyber Pass...
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    Marianos Argyros, Byzantine general Abu Muhammad al-Hasan, Buyid vizier Alp-Tegin, Samanid commander-in-chief Donnchad mac Cellacháin, king of Munster (Ireland)...
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    Caliphs Al-Hadi and Harun al-Rashid, the most famous of the Abbasids. Alp-Tegin (died 963), a member of the nomadic Turks of Central Asian steppes who...
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    Qara-tegin and Mamlan and continued the siege of Shamakhi. Meanwhile, Fariburz secretly sent a messenger to the chamberlain of the Seljuq ruler Alp Arslan...
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  • about the rule of Barha Tegin, but many of the early Turk Shahi coins are attributed to him. He was succeeded by his son Tegin Shah c. 680, whose regal...
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  • Marianos Argyros, Byzantine general Abu Muhammad al-Hasan, Buyid vizier Alp-Tegin, Samanid commander-in-chief Donnchad mac Cellacháin, king of Munster (Ireland)...
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    Mansur Sabuktigin. Born there in 942, he was later sold as a slave to Alp-Tegin, the commander-in-chief of the Samanid rulers of Bukhara. Sabuktigin became...
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    Kara-Khanids at the Battle of Dabusiyya. After the Kara-Khanid ruler Ali-Tegin's death, however, the Seljuks changed their allegiance to the ruler of Khwarazm...
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  • successor. Spring – Sabuktigin, a Samanid general, succeeds his father-in-law Alp-Tegin as governor of Ghazna (modern Afghanistan). He enlarges his dominions...
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  • expulsion of Abu Bakr Loyak from Ghazni by the Samanid slave-commander Alp Tegin in 962 CE, Sajawand fell under Ghaznavid control. Greatly benefiting from...
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