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Nūḥ II

Sāmānid ruler

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place in Sāmānid dynasty

In Samanid dynasty
Nūḥ II (976–997), to retain at least nominal control, confirmed Sebüktigin, a former Turkic slave, as semi-independent ruler of Ghazna (modern Ghaznī, Afghanistan) and appointed his son Maḥmūd governor of Khorāsān. But the Turkic Qarakhanids, who then occupied the greater
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