Western Karakhanid Khanate

State · 1046–1084 CE · at its largest around 1066 CE

Western branch of the Kara-Khanid Khanate centred on Bukhara and Samarkand in Transoxiana, which became subject to the Seljuks and later the Kara-Khitai.

On its lands while it lasted

• Silk Road (c. 130 BCE – c. 1450 CE): A network of overland caravan routes linking China with Central Asia, Persia and the Mediterranean, along which silk, spices, horses, religions, technologies and diseases travelled for more than 1,500 years.

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