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The Samanid Emirate
AD 820 - 1000

The Samanids took the Transoxiana region from the Tahrid governors of Khurasan in 820. The state then grew to cover most of Persia.

819 - 864

Saman Khoda

864 - 892

Nasr I

892 - 907

Ismail I

900

The Saffarid emirs in Khurasan are defeated by the Samanids and reduced in territory to Seistan in Persia.

907 - 914

Ahmad II

914 - 943

as-Sa'id Nasr II

943 - 954

Hamid Nuh I

954 - 961

Abdül-Malik I

961 - 976

Mansur I

976 - 997

Nuh II

977

Within twenty years up to 977 the Samanids have placed Islamicised Turkic governors in the Persian city of Ghazni and in 977 these governors revolt to form their own Ghaznavid dynasty.

997 - 999

Mansur II

999 - 1000

Abdül Malik II

1000

Samanid power begins to decline with the rise of the Buwayhid Emirate in Mesopotamia and south-western Persia. The revolt of the Afghan-based Ghaznavids brings the emirate to an end.

1000 - 1005

al-Muntasir