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Group: Kokand (Quqon), Khanate of
People: Friedrich Stromeyer
Topic: Western Art: 1468 to 1480
Location: Hattusa > Bogazkale Corum Turkey

Junayd returns to Merv, leaving a token …

Years: 731 - 731
November

Junayd returns to Merv, leaving a token garrison of eight hundred men behind in Samarkand, and, once the Turgesh had withdrawn north for the winter, he evacuates the city of its Muslim inhabitants.

The Battle of the Defile had shattered the tenuous Arab control over what remains of their possessions in Transoxiana.

The Arabs will not able to recover their position until the governorship of Nasr ibn Sayyar, who in 739–741 will manage to re-establish the Caliphate's authority up to Samarkand.