Alp Tigin
Sign in to saveAlp-Tegin, ( Alptegīn or Alptigīn) or Alptekin, was a Turkic slave commander of the Samanid Empire, who would later become the semi-independent governor of Ghazna from 962 until his death in 963.
Key facts
- Officeholder.name
- Alp-Tegin
- Officeholder.image
- Pınarbaşı 5.JPG
- Officeholder.caption
- Bust of Alp Tegin as one of the founders of the "16 Great Turkic Empires", part of the "Turkishness Monument" (Türklük Anıtı) in Pınarbaşı, Kayseri (opened 2000, 2012 photograph).
- Officeholder.office
- Governor of Ghazna
- Officeholder.term_start
- 962
- Officeholder.term_end
- September 963
- Officeholder.monarch
- Mansur I
- Officeholder.successor
- Abu Ishaq Ibrahim
- Officeholder.death_date
- September 963
- Officeholder.death_place
- Ghazna
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Samanid dynasty
- Place of birth
- Bukhara
- Place of death
- Ghazni
- Child
- Abu Ishaq Ibrahim
- Occupation
- military commander
- Position held
- Ispahsalar
- Languages spoken
- Old Turkic
- Family
- Ghaznavids
- Image
- Pınarbaşı 5.JPG
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- date of death
- 0963-09-13
- date of birth
- 0901-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Origin
- Service under Nuh I and Abd al-Malik I
- Flight and recognition as governor of Ghazna
- References
- Sources
Alp-Tegin, ( Alptegīn or Alptigīn) or Alptekin, was a Turkic slave commander of the Samanid Empire, who would later become the semi-independent governor of Ghazna from 962 until his death in 963.
Before becoming governor of Ghazni, Alp-Tegin was the commander-in-chief (sipahsalar) of the Samanid army in Khorasan. In a political fallout over succession of the Samanids he crossed the Hindu Kush mountains southward and captured Ghazna, located strategically between Kabul and Kandahar in present-day Afghanistan, and thereby establishing his own principality, which, however, was still under Samanid authority. He was succeeded by his son, Abu Ishaq Ibrahim.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alp Tigin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.