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Kara-Khanid Khanate

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Long ago, a group of people ruled a large land.

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They were called the Kara-Khanids. They lived in a place called Central Asia. They used names like lion and wolf.
Kara-Khanid Turkic bowman with long braids, Afrasiab, circa 1200 CE.jpg
Kara-Khanid Turkic bowman with long braids, Afrasiab, circa 1200 CE.jpg
These people helped change how people lived there. Can you imagine living in a land of kings?

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File:Piatto con decorazione di castello assediato, arg, samirechye, da bolshoe-anikovskaya, IX-X sec su orig del l'VIII sec.JPG
Piatto con decorazione di castello...
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Anikova, two horsemen (grey background).jpg
File:Mausoleum of Satuq Bughra Khan (detail, B&W), Artush (Hercule Louis Catenacci, 1816-1884).jpg
Mausoleum of Satuq Bughra Khan (detail,...
File:The Kara-Khanid ruler Ilig Khan on horse submitting to Mahmud of Ghazni riding an elephant, Persian painting, 1306-14.jpg
The Kara-Khanid ruler Ilig Khan on horse...
File:Ilak Khan Tughan (detail) putting the heathens to flight, from the Arabic copy of Rashid al-Din’s Jāmi al-tavārikh, dated 714 (1314–15). Edinburgh University Library Or. ms. 20, fol. 133b.jpg
Ilak Khan Tughan (detail) putting the...
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Kara-Khanid Khanate.png
File:Prince on his throne, with standing courtesans, Afrasiyab, Samarkand, 1170-1220 CE. National History Museum of Samarkand.jpg
Prince on his throne, with standing...
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Ali-Tegin.jpg
File:Kara-Khanid Turkic bowman with long braids, Afrasiab, circa 1200 CE.jpg
Kara-Khanid Turkic bowman with long...
File:Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk (original).jpg
Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk (original).jpg
File:UzgenMausoleum.jpg
UzgenMausoleum.jpg
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Burana_tower_2009.jpg

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