With the regression of the Caliphate from
its Eastern provinces, Afghanistan is once again split by a variety
of competing conquerers.
9.1 TAHIRIDS, SAFFARIDS AND SAMANIDS
820-872
Tahirids of Korasan: This local Kingdom which included the
principalities of Herat and Balkh established virtual independence
from the Abassid Caliphate
870-903
Yakub ibn Layth as-Saffar and the Saffarids of Seistan:
This local Kingdom conquests the major part of modern day Western
and Central Afghanistan from the Tahirids.
872-999
Samanids: Become the feudal masters of most of Northern Afghanistan
including the principalities of Balkh and Bukhara and Samarkand in
Uzbekhistan conquering the Tahirids.
903-999
Samanids: moves further South conquering Afghanistan and
Iran from the Saffarids. Their Empire stretches from India to Baghdad
999
Samanids conquered by the Ilak Khans of Turkestan
9.2 GHAZNAVIDS
950-977
Alptegin and the Ghaznavids: A Turkish slave named
Alptegin leads an uprising in Ghazna (Ghazni) against the Samanids
and becomes the local Prince.
977-997
Subüktigan: Another slave succeeds to the throne and
leads the conquest of Kabul from the Samanids and conquests the Rajputans
to the Indus.
994
Samanids cede Korasan to the Ghaznavids
997-1030
Mahmüd of Ghazna (son): Increases the Empire into the
heart of India. Ghazna (Ghazni) becomes a major international city
as well as the second capital at Bust (Lashkar Gäh)
1030
Beginning of the fall of the Ghaznavid Empire in Afghanistan
at the hands of the Seljuk Turks and the Ghurids
