Relief of Qasr al-Bahili
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The Relief of Qasr al-Bahili was the successful relief of the Arab garrison of the small fortress of Qasr al-Bahili from the siege by the Turkic Türgesh Khaganate. Sent by the Umayyad Caliphate's governor of Khurasan, an Arab relief force under al-Musayyab ibn Bishr al-Riyahi managed to break the siege and escort the garrison to safety in Samarkand.
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Relief of Qasr al-Bahili | |||||||
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Part of the Muslim conquest of Transoxiana | |||||||
Map of Khurasan and Transoxiana in the 8th century | |||||||
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Umayyad Caliphate | Türgesh Khaganate | ||||||
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al-Musayyab al-Riyahi | Kursul | ||||||
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100 families in the fort, c. 1,000 men in the relief force | Unknown |
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The siege marked the beginning of the Türgesh invasion of Transoxiana, which the Arabs had only recently subdued, and which became a battleground between the two empires for the following two decades.[2]