Turgar
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title:
Turgar
text:
Tūrgār, also Thurgar was a medieval Sogdian ruler in Transoxiana and successor to his father Ghurak during the period of the Muslim conquest of Transoxiana. He was the last ruler of Samarkand and its surroundings from ca. 738 until no later than 755/57, until the Arabs took full control of the region. He was an Ikhshid, a princely title of the Iranian rulers of Soghdia and the Ferghana Valley in Transoxiana during the pre-Islamic and early Islamic periods. Turgar issued coinage with his own name
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description:
8th-century King of Samarkand
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turgar
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date modified:
2024-04-25T17:30:48Z
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