High Middle Ages · Central Asia · Politics
1139
Ghurid dynasty consolidates in Afghanistan
1139
In the rugged mountain valleys of Ghor in central Afghanistan, the chieftains of the Shansabani clan consolidated a growing kingdom wedged between the declining Ghaznavids to the east and the fragmenting Seljuk periphery to the west. Their remote highland capital at Firuzkuh, the Turquoise Mountain, would soon launch the devastating campaigns that brought Islam to the Gangetic plain and effectively ended Buddhist civilization in India.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.