Turan

Under the name Turan ( Turan ) knew Muslim geographers and historians, especially until the 10th century an inaccessible mountain region in east-central Balochistan that bordered on the south by Are Makran and east. ( "Hostile, not Iranian territory " - see Turan ( mythology) ) It is possible that the name of the Persian term tura (s) derives.

Turan, whose capital was Qusdar ( Quṣdār, today Chuzdar ) is described al - alam at Istachri, Muqaddasi, Ibn Hauqal and in the Hudud and also in Yaqut finds the region even mention. Your Location is approximately the Khanate of Kalat of the modern.

According to al-Tabari, the ruler of Makran and Turan the first Sassanian Ardashir I (r. 224-239/40 ) had subjugated. As part of the Caliphate the politically fragmented Turan, whose inhabitants were Islamized mostly late belonged, probably, among others, to the realm of Saffarid before it fell to the Ghaznavids: Sebüktegin made ​​the ruler of Qusdar 966/67 to his vassals and both Mahmud ( 1011 ) and Masud ( 1030) sent expeditions to maintain this status.

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