List of Tajik dynasties and states

The following is a list of Tajik dynasties. It includes states, principalities, empires and dynasties which were founded by rulers or dynasties of Tajik origin, pre-ethnogenesis Tajiks or ethnicities closely associated with Tajiks.

Medieval era (710–1506)

• Ghurid Dynasty (784 AD - 1215 AD), a Tajik dynasty which ruled the region of Ghor, becoming an Empire from 1175 to 1215. They gradually converted to Sunni Islam after the conquest of Ghor by the Ghaznavid ruler Mahmud of Ghazni in 1011. The Ghurids eventually overran the Ghaznavids when Muhammad of Ghor seized Lahore and expelled the Ghaznavids from their last stronghold. Eventually they took large parts of India. Despite their short-lived empire, their reign certified Islamic rule for India for centuries to come.
• Kart Dynasty (1244 AD - 1381 AD), a Tajik dynasty closely related to the Ghurids, ruled a large parts of Khorasan. They were vassals of the Ghurids, Mongols and Timurids at one point of their history. They ruled from their capital at Herat and central Khorasan in the Bamyan.

Modern era (1868–present)

• Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic (1929 AD - 1991 AD), one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union created for the Tajiks, it preceded the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Uzbek SSR. The Republic was governed by mostly Ethnic Tajiks who were part of the Tajik Communist Party. It gained independence after the Soviet Union collapsed and was succeeded by the Republic of Tajikistan.
• Republic of Tajikistan (1991 AD - Present), a Tajik secular state ruled by Emomali Rahmon, successor of the Tajik SSR.

See also

• List of Tajik people
• List of Sodgian states

References