Samanids

History of Greater Iran

Pre-modern

Pre-Islamic

	BCE
Prehistory
Proto-Elamite civilization	3200–2800
Elamite dynasties	2800–550
Bactria-Margiana Complex	2200–1700
Kingdom of Mannai	10th–7th cent.
Median Empire	728–550
Achaemenid Empire	550–330
Seleucid Empire	330–150
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom	250-125
Parthian Empire	248–CE 224
	CE
Kushan Empire	30–275
Sassanid Empire	224–651
Hephthalite Empire	425–557
Kabul Shahi kingdom	565–879

Islamic

Patriarchal Caliphate	637–651
Umayyad Caliphate	661–750
Abbasid Caliphate	750–1258
Tahirid dynasty	821–873
Alavid dynasty	864–928
Saffarid dynasty	861–1003
Samanid dynasty	819–999
Ziyarid dynasty	928–1043
Buyid dynasty	934–1055
Ghaznavid Empire	975–1187
Ghurid dynasty	1149–1212
Seljuq Empire	1037–1194
Khwarazmian dynasty	1077–1231
Ilkhanate	1256–353
Kartids dynasty	1231–389
Muzaffarid dynasty	1314–1393
Chupanid dynasty	1337–1357
Jalayerid dynasty	1339–1432
Timurid Empire	1370–1506
Qara Qoyunlu Turcomans	1407–1468
Aq Qoyunlu Turcomans	1378–1508
Safavid Empire	1501–1722
Mughal Empire	1526–1857
Hotaki dynasty	1722–1729
Afsharid dynasty	1736–1750
Zand Dynasty	1750–1794
Durrani Empire	1794–1826
Qajar Dynasty	1794–1925

The Samani dynasty (Persian: سامانیان‎, Tajik: Сомониён - Sāmāniyān), also known as the Samanid Empire, or simply Samanids (819–999) was a Sunni Persian Empire in Central Asia, named after its founder Saman Khuda, who converted to Islam despite being from Zoroastrian theocratic nobility. It was a native Persian dynasty in Greater Iran and Central Asia after the collapse of the Sassanid Persian empire caused by the Arab conquest.