What the records say
- When
- 729
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 39.66° N, 64.07° E
- Description
- 729 battle of the Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
Battle of Baykand
729 battle of the Muslim conquest of Transoxiana
The Battle of Baykand was fought in 729 between the Turkic Türgesh khaganate and its Soghdian allies and the Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate at Baykand, a town near Bukhara in Transoxiana. The Arab army, under the governor of Khurasan Ashras ibn Abdallah al-Sulami, campaigned across the Oxus River to suppress a large-scale rebellion of the subject Soghdian princes that had broken out the previous year and received Tür…
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- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Baykand: The Umayyad Arabs narrowly escape disaster when cut off from water by the Turgesh, and push through to reach Bukhara in Transoxiana”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Baykend Muharebesi gerçekleşti”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Persian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “جنگ بایکند: اعراب اموی به سختی از فاجعهای که توسط تورگش از آب قطع شده بود، جان سالم به در بردند و با پیشروی به بخارا در ماوراءالنهر رسیدند”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page