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Talas (751)
The Battle of Talas (Chinese: 怛羅斯戰役Dáluósī zhànyì; Arabic: معركة نهر طلاسMaʿrakat nahr Ṭalās) was an armed confrontation between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Tibetan Empire against the Tang dynasty in 751 AD. In July of that year, the Tang and Abbasid armies clashed at the Talas River over control of the regions surrounding the Syr Darya. According to Chinese sources, it was initially marked by several days of military stalemate before the balance of power was decisively tipped in the Abbasids' favour due to the defection of a Tang-allied mercenary column, consisting of some 20,000 Karluk Turks, who subsequently played a vital role in routing the Tang army.
This defeat was seen[when?] by the Western world as the end of the Tang dynasty's westward expansion. However, the caliph quickly dispatched an envoy to Chang'an, who arrived on 7 December 752 to ask for the restoration of diplomatic relations.[4] In response, the Tang emperor forgave the Abbasids' provocation, but continued to expand into Central Asia; the Tang army, under the leadership of Feng Changqing, launched an offensive against the Great Blue Kingdom in present-day Kashmir in 753. By 821, the Arab Muslims had lost direct control over their Central Asian territories, and the Turkic-origin Ghaznavids rose to power in the region in 977. The gains brought about by the Muslim conquest of Transoxiana were entirely lost in 1124, when the non-Muslim Qara Khitai conquered the region. The Abbasids placed great value on controlling this area as it was a strategic point on the Silk Road; Chinese prisoners captured at Talas in 751 are said to have introduced papermaking to the peoples of West Asia.
^ abBai 2003, pp. 224–225.
^Barthold, William (2003), Turkestan down to the Mongol invasion, London: Oxford University Press, p. 196
^Kennedy, Hugh (2013). The Armies of the Caliphs: Military and Society in the Early Islamic State. Routledge. pp. 96–99. ISBN 978-1-134-53113-4.
^Bai 2003, pp. 241–242.
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The BattleofTalas (Chinese: 怛羅斯戰役 Dáluósī zhànyì; Arabic: معركة نهر طلاس Maʿrakat nahr Ṭalās) was an armed confrontation between the Abbasid Caliphate...
Talas Region (Kyrgyz: Талас облусу, romanized: Talas oblusu; Russian: Таласская область, romanized: Talasskaya oblast) is a region (oblast) of Kyrgyzstan...
the Talas River. In 751 he commanded the Tang forces during the BattleofTalas, fighting against the Abbasid Caliphate. The Tang defeat at the Talas River...
The Talas (Kyrgyz, Kazakh: Талас) is a river that rises in the Talas Region of Kyrgyzstan and flows west into Kazakhstan. The river is 661 kilometres (411 mi)...
defeated and killed. The battle was probably fought near Taraz on the Talas River in eastern Kazakhstan, which makes it one of the westernmost points reached...
of the Talas River to vie for control of the Syr Darya region of central Asia. After a stalemate in several days of combat, the Tang lost the battle because...
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his request is declined. BattleofTalas: First recorded encounter (and the last) between Arab and Chinese forces. The rulers of Tashkent and Ferghana are...
eunuch. It has been said that knowledge of papermaking was passed to the Islamic world after the BattleofTalas in 751 CE when two Chinese papermakers...
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almost all of their central Asian possessions to the Chinese. However, after Gao Xianzhi's defeat by the Arabs and Qarluqs at the BattleofTalas (751) and...
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paper came to the Islamic world as a result of the capture of Chinese paper makers at the 751 C.E. battleofTalas River. Burke, Edmund (June 2009), "Islam...
dervishes), this view has been challenged in recent years. Since the BattleofTalas (752), Muslim heresiographers never mentioned Turkic or Mongolian beliefs...
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was obtained from two Chinese prisoners from the BattleofTalas in 751, which led to the foundation of the first paper mill in the Islamic world at Samarqand...
and U.S. Army War College Press. Oresman, Matthew, "Beyond the Battle ofTalas: China's Re-emergence in Central Asia" (PDF). Archived from the original...
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