The Ghurids were an Iranian dynasty from the mountainous region of Ghor in central Afghanistan, who rose from local chiefs to rulers of an empire stretching from eastern Iran to northern India. They began as vassals of the Ghaznavids, then overthrew them and took Ghazni in the twelfth century. Brothers Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad and Mu'izz al-Din Muhammad divided the work of rule, the first holding the west and the second leading campaigns into India. Mu'izz al-Din defeated the Rajput ruler Prithviraj Chauhan in 1192, and his slave-general Qutb al-Din Aibak went on to found the Delhi Sultanate. The Ghurids left the Minaret of Jam, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and their empire collapsed under the Khwarazmian dynasty in the early thirteenth century.
Before and after
- from 1007 to 1090Construction of Qal'at Bani Hammad
- c. 1010Origins of Hanoi
- 1010Construction of Prahadisvarar Temple
- c. 1010sMurasaki Shikibu writes The Tale of Genji
- from c. 1011 to 1215Ghurid dynasty
- from 1011 to 1934Construction of Saint Sophia Cathedral
- 1015Construction of Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg
- 1020Death of Ferdowsi
- 1020Construction of Wawel Cathedral
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