Samarkand: All Data
Samarkand is a city in Uzbekistan. This page covers its chronology of mentions across 5,500 years of history, including capitals, battles, events and subdivisions. Part of Phersu Atlas.
1. Lists and Timelines
Samarkand: Chronology of Mentions
Note: For polities of antiquity, the listed capital or subdivision capital may also represent one or several of the most important cities of the region.
500 BC
Subdivision Capital of the Satrapy of Sogdia, part of Achaemenid Empire
590 AD
Mentioned in Event: First Perso-Turkic War
677 AD
Mentioned in Event: Muslim conquest of Transoxiana, Ferghana and Khorasan
729 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Kamarja, part of Muslim conquest of Transoxiana, Ferghana and Khorasan
1042 AD
Capital of Eastern Kara-Khanid Khanate
1103 AD
Capital of Eastern Kara-Khanid Khanate (Seljuk Empire)
1129 AD
Capital of Eastern Kara-Khanid Khanate (Kara Khitan)
1141 AD
Mentioned in: Battle of Qatwan
1142 AD
Capital of Western Kara-Khanid Khanate (Kara Khitan)
1212 AD
Capital of Khwarazmian Empire
1220 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Samarkand (1220), part of Mongol invasions and conquests
1221 AD
Mentioned in Event: Conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire
1365 AD
Mentioned in Event: Timurid invasions
1365 AD
Mentioned in: siege of Samarkand, part of Timurid invasions
1370 AD
Capital of Timurid Empire
1497 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Samarkand (1497), part of Timurid invasions
1501 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Samarkand (1501), part of Campaigns of Babur
1868 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russian Conquest of Bukhara
1868 AD
Mentioned in: Siege of Samarkand (1868), part of Russian Conquest of Bukhara
1914 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Oblast of Samarkand, part of Russian Empire
1920 AD
Mentioned in Event: Russian Civil War
1925 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Republic of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, part of USSR
1930 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Republic of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, part of USSR
1991 AD
Mentioned in Event: Dissolution of the Soviet Union
2025 AD
Subdivision Capital of the Region of Samarqand Region, part of Republic of Uzbekistan