Battle Of Talas
42 31'30 "N 72 14'0" W / 42,525, 72.23333
| Battle of Talas | |
| General Information | |
|---|---|
| Date | July 751 |
| Location | near Taraz ( Kazakhstan ) |
| Issue | Win of the Abbasids |
| Belligerents | |
 Abbasids |  Tang Dynasty |
| Commanders | |
| Ziyad bin Salih | Kao Hsien-chih |
| Forces present | |
| 150 000 men | 30 000 men |
| Conquest Abbasid | |
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The Battle of Talas or Battle of Talas River took place in July 751 , on the banks of the river Talas in Kyrgyzstan near the city of Kazakhstan Taraz (), formerly Zhambyl () between troops Abbasid (and allies: Tibetans, Turks, etc..) and troops of the Chinese Tang dynasty.
Summary |
Background
The Chinese had taken control of all the mountains of the Hindu Kush and the Pamirs in 740 years. For their part, Arabs annexing Transoxiana to Tashkent and the valley of Ferghana. The rulers of vassal regions of China asking for help, but the Chinese responded that 747 Tibetans threatened when the trade routes between India and China and between Kashgar (in Xinjiang ) and Tashkent (in Uzbekistan ).
Battle
A Chinese military expedition sailed under the command of General Gao Xianzhi Korean (Kao Hsien-chih, Kao Hsien-chih). He could capture the king of Tashkent who refused to pay tribute to China and beheaded. The Arabs, the call of the son of the murdered king, came with their head Ziyad bin Salih the general leading the armies khurassaniennes of Abu Muslim in the service of the caliph Abu al-Abbas As-Saffah. The two armies met on the banks of the River Talas.
On the one hand the Abbasid army estimated at around 150,000 men, including gazis Turks ( Turkish : Gazi Consequences
This victory is symbolic Abbasid strong as it marks the westernmost point of the Chinese empire. The win also marks the easternmost point of the advance of Arab troops to China. The Arabs no longer attempt any step in this direction despite their victory. Now the advance of Islam in Central Asia will be by the gradual conversion of the Turkish tribes.
It was not only a military defeat for the Chinese, because the Arabs made many prisoners who were sold as slaves to Samarkand , Baghdad and Damascus. Among these prisoners, some familiar techniques secret Chinese: paper and silk. The Arabs used them and in particular the manufacture of paper allowed to give more strength to the dissemination of the Quran.
Publications
- Dominique Faral , The Battles of the Talas region and the Muslim expansion in Central Asia, Economics, 2006.
- Bartold, W [1928] (1992). (Western) Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers. ( ISBN 978-8121505444 )
- Bai Shouyi et al. (2003). A History of Chinese Muslim (Vol.2). Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company. ( ISBN 7-101-02890-X ).
- Xue, Zongzheng (1998). Anxi and Beiting Protectorates: A Research on Frontier Policy in Tang Dynasty's Western Boundary. Harbin: Heilongjiang Education Press. ( ISBN 7-5316-2857-0 ).
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