Sighnaq

City · c. 1469–1599 CE · in Europe

Capital of Kazakh Khanate (1469–1599).

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Around the same time and place

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.
Timur (1336 CE – 1405 CE): Turco-Mongol conqueror born near Kesh (Shahrisabz) who built an empire from Anatolia to India, sacked Delhi in 1398 and made Samarkand his capital.
Campaigns of Timur (1370–1405 CE): From Samarkand, Timur (Tamerlane) campaigned across Persia, the Golden Horde, India (sacking Delhi in 1398), Syria and Anatolia, where he captured the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I at Ankara in 1402. He died at Otrar in 1405 while marching on China.
Timurid Empire (1370–1507 CE): Empire founded by Timur in 1370; under his successors Samarkand and Herat became centres of a Persianate cultural flowering.
Babur (1483 CE – 1530 CE): Timurid prince from the Fergana Valley who took Kabul in 1504 and founded the Mughal Empire after victory at Panipat in 1526.
Ulugh Beg (1394 CE – 1449 CE): Timurid ruler of Samarkand and astronomer whose star catalogue was the most accurate of its era.
Registan (1417 CE): Square in Samarkand framed by three madrasas, the first built by Ulugh Beg from 1417; a landmark of Islamic architecture.
Kazakh Khanate (c. 1465–1847 CE): State founded by the sultans Kerei and Janibek in the Chu valley around 1465, the forerunner of the Kazakh nation.