Territorial change of Turk Shahis

“Turk Shahis” — appears in this map’s data from AD 561 to 874. Its territory was largest in AD 692 – 717, at ≈ 340 thousand km².

Territory by period

Outline at its largest extent

Outline of the territory in AD 692 – 717 (map drawing). Neighbouring countries are not drawn.

Area and rank by frame

For each frame in which borders change: this country’s territory and its rank by area among the countries that have territory in that frame.

Its highest rank was in AD 718: number 69 of 13.

Neighbouring countries

In order of the number of frames in which they share a border (a parent state, its colonies and other names of the same country are counted as one group).

• Tibetan Empire — 24 frames
• Abbasid Caliphate — 22 frames
• Sasanian Empire — 19 frames
• Karkota dynasty — 16 frames
• Umayyad Caliphate — 10 frames
• Turk — 9 frames
• Göktürks — 4 frames
• Rashidun Caliphate — 4 frames
• First Turkic Khaganate — 4 frames
• Tang dynasty — 2 frames
• Türgesh — 2 frames
• Saffarid dynasty — 2 frames

Territory exchanged with

Computed from changes in territory between frames (only changes of about 20,000 km² or more are counted; these are not actual routes of advance). Top 6 by area.

Wikipedia summary

The Turk Shahis were a dynasty of Western Turk, or mixed Turco-Hephthalite origin, that ruled from Kabul and Kapisa to Gandhara in the 7th to 9th centuries CE. They may have been of Khalaj ethnicity. The Gandhara territory may have been bordering the Kashmir kingdom to the east.

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