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1 Persian Achaemeniad control
2 Greek control
3 Indian control
4 Parthian control
5 Greco-Bactrian control
6 Yüeh-Chi (Kushans)
7 Sasanid Persian rule
8 Arab muslim dynastic rule
9 Competing local dynasties
10 Seljuk Turks (Selyucids)
11 Shansabani Persians of Ghür (Ghürids)
12 Khwärezm-Shahs (Uzbekhs)
13 The Mongols
14 Sarbardarids
15 Timurids
16 Eastern Afghanistan
17 Western Afghanistan
18 Independent Afghanistan under the Hotaki Khans
19 Return of the Safavid Persians
20 Shah Nader's Persian Empire and the unifying of Afghanistan
21 Independent Afghanistan under the House of Durrani
22 House of Baraksay
23 Republic of Afghanistan: The presidency of Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan
24 Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
25 Russian occupation
26 Civil war: Post-Russian occupation
27 Civil war: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
28 Taliban rule
29 Post-Taliban rule
  
  
  Updated November 2001
  Compiled by Dr Kevin Vang © 2001
  Website by Ahmet Bektas (web ).
15.0 TIMURIDS
1369-1405 Tamerlane (Timur): This visier of the Mogol Khan Chatagay Suyurghatmish usurps the power of his chief in 1369 and conquests wide areas of the eastern Middle-east including most of the areas of modern Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. Forms the Timurid Dynasty
1380-1387 Conquest of Afghanistan. Herat captured in 1381
1405-1447 Cha Rukh (son)
1447-1452 ?
1452-1469 Abu Said: last of the Timurids. Defeated by the Turkmenian Uzun Hasan
1469-1500 ??
1500 With the fall of the Timurids, Afghanistan enters a period of conquest by the three neighboring powers, the Uzbekis of the North, the Safavid Persians of the West and the Indian Moguls of the East
 

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