High Middle Ages · Central Asia · Politics
1030
Death of Mahmud of Ghazni
April 30, 1030
The Turkic sultan who had raided India seventeen times and carried home enough gold to build palaces at Ghazni died in his capital. His empire would not long survive him. A new Oghuz Turkic group, the Seljuks, were already stirring on his Central Asian frontier and would soon strike. The wealth he had looted funded a court that rivaled Baghdad in its patronage of poets and scholars.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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