Battle of Samarkand (1598)

Battle of Samarkand
	Part of Kazakh-Bukhara War (1598)
Date	1598
Location	between Tashkent and Samarkand
Result	Kazakh Khanate victory
Belligerents
Kazakh Khanate	Bukhara Khanate
Commanders and leaders
Tauekel Khan	Abdullah Khan II †

The Battle of Samarkand was fought in 1598 between the Kazakh and Bukhara Khanates, on the territory near Samarkand, in which the Kazakhs were victorious.

The struggle of Khan Taukel for the inclusion of Tashkent and Turkestan in the Kazakh Khanate and the unification of the Kazakh ethnic lands did not cease. In early 1598 in the state of the Shaybanids, a struggle for the throne erupted between Abdullah-khan and his son Abd al-Mumin. Deciding to take advantage of this, Khan Taukel organized a campaign against the Shaybanid state. Incorrectly assessing the power of the Kazakh Khanate, Abdullah-khan tried to stop the Kazakh army only with the forces of border troops. Skillfully leading his army, Taukel defeated the Uzbek army between Samarkand and Tashkent, but he failed to consolidate these territories.^[2]

Abdullah-khan, deciding to completely eliminate the threat to his state from the north, personally led a campaign against the Kazakhs, but died on route. Soon after, his son Abd Al-Mumin-khan was killed, after which the Shaybanid state began to disintegrate into small holdings. Having received news of this in the summer of 1598, as indicated in the "Tarikh-i Alam-ara-yi Abbasi," Khan Taukel undertook a major campaign in Central Asia.^[3]

References

^ Atygaev, Nurlan (2023). The Kazakh Khanate: essays on the foreign policy history of the XV-XVII centuries (in Russian). Almaty: Eurasian Scientific Research Institute named after K.A. Yasavi. p. 47. ISBN 978-601-7805-24-1.
^ M. H., Abuseitova (1985). The Kazakh Khanate in the second half of the XVI century (in Russian). Almaty: «science». p. 83.
^ Atygaev, Nurlan (2023). The Kazakh Khanate: essays on the foreign policy history of the XV-XVII centuries (in Russian). Almaty: Eurasian Scientific Research Institute named after K.A. Yasavi. p. 47. ISBN 978-601-7805-24-1.

[1] Atygaev, Nurlan (2023). The Kazakh Khanate: essays on the foreign policy history of the XV-XVII centuries (in Russian). Almaty: Eurasian Scientific Research Institute named after K.A. Yasavi. p. 47. ISBN 978-601-7805-24-1.

[2] M. H., Abuseitova (1985). The Kazakh Khanate in the second half of the XVI century (in Russian). Almaty: «science». p. 83.

[3] Atygaev, Nurlan (2023). The Kazakh Khanate: essays on the foreign policy history of the XV-XVII centuries (in Russian). Almaty: Eurasian Scientific Research Institute named after K.A. Yasavi. p. 47. ISBN 978-601-7805-24-1.

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