The Iranian Intermezzo

The Persianate dynasties between the fading of direct Abbasid rule and the Mongol arrival — Khurasan, Transoxiana and the Iranian plateau. Dense with succession: slave-generals taking their masters' provinces, vassals swallowing overlords, governors inheriting the empire that appointed them.

The line below is a time axis. Position on it is date, so concurrency is visible: concurrent polities sit side by side rather than in sequence.

14 sourced edges run between this region and another, to Sasanian Empire, Abbasid Caliphate, Delhi Sultanate, Mongol Empire, Marwanid Emirate, Burid Emirate of Damascus, Uqaylid Emirate, Mirdasid Emirate, Sultanate of Rum, Fatimid Caliphate, Emirate of Derbend and Artuqid Dynasty. Those are not drawn on this line — a thread that crossed regions would assert a sequence nobody cited — but they are on each polity’s own page.

7008009001000110012001300Bavand Dynasty 651 – 1349Samanid Empire 819–892 to 999–1005Tahirid Dynasty 821 – 873Karakhanid Khanate 840 – 1212Saffarid Dynasty 861 to 901–1003Ghurid Sultanate 879–1011 to 1215Ziyarid Dynasty 931 – 1090Buyid Confederation 934 to 1055–1062Ghaznavid Empire 962–977 to 1186Ma'munid Khwarazmshahs 995 – 1017Kakuyid Dynasty 1008 to 1051–1141Great Seljuk Empire 1037–1040 to 1194Khwarazmian Empire 1077–1097 to 1220–1231Nizari Isma'ili State 1090 to 1256–1273819 Samanid Empire vassal of Tahirid Dynasty873 Saffarid Dynasty overthrew Tahirid Dynasty900 Saffarid Dynasty conquered by Samanid Empire901 Samanid Empire absorbed remnants of Saffarid Dynasty (contested)934 Buyid Confederation seceded from Ziyarid Dynasty962 Ghaznavid Empire slave-general of Samanid Empire999 Ghaznavid Empire claimed legitimacy of Samanid Empire999 Samanid Empire conquered by Karakhanid Khanate1003 Ghaznavid Empire absorbed remnants of Saffarid Dynasty (contested)1008 Kakuyid Dynasty seceded from Buyid Confederation1011 Ghurid Sultanate vassal of Ghaznavid Empire1017 Ma'munid Khwarazmshahs conquered by Ghaznavid Empire1040 Ghaznavid Empire conquered by Great Seljuk Empire1051 Kakuyid Dynasty conquered by Great Seljuk Empire1055 Great Seljuk Empire overthrew Buyid Confederation1077 Khwarazmian Empire vassal of Great Seljuk Empire1090 Nizari Isma'ili State seceded from Great Seljuk Empire1090 Ziyarid Dynasty conquered by Nizari Isma'ili State1186 Ghurid Sultanate overthrew Ghaznavid Empire1194 Khwarazmian Empire overthrew Great Seljuk Empire1194 Khwarazmian Empire claimed legitimacy of Great Seljuk Empire1212 Karakhanid Khanate conquered by Khwarazmian Empire1215 Ghurid Sultanate conquered by Khwarazmian Empire