Samanids
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| History of Greater Iran |
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| Pre-modern |
Pre-Islamic
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BCE |
| Prehistory |
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| 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 |
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CE |
| Kushan Empire |
30–275 |
| Sassanid Empire |
224–651 |
| Hephthalite Empire |
425–557 |
| Kabul Shahi kingdom |
565–879 |
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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 |
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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.