Talk:Battle of Aksu (717)

Dubious
The accuracy of the "Background" section is significantly at odds with other, better-referenced articles, such as Principality of Farghana, which states:


 * The principality of Farghana was ... invaded by the Umayyad Arab general Qutayba ibn Muslim during the Muslim conquest of Transoxiana. Farghana, along with Khujand, was shortly raided after Qutayba's victory over Gurak.
 * In 715, Qutayba completely subdued Farghana, and made it a vassal state of the Umayyad Caliphate. During the reign of the Umayyad caliph Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (r. 715–717), the ikhshid ("king") of Farghana revolted against Umayyad authority, but was shortly defeated and killed. He was buried in Andijan. After the death of Qutayba (also in 715), Ferghana was taken back by Chinese general Zhang Xiaosong (張孝嵩).

In addition, it is also clear that the Battle of Aksu errs in using ikhshi as a personal name, i.e. it is a title like king or prince.

Grant &#124;  Talk  04:09, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

- I agree with the above, for such a unique part of history seems like a fairly neglected article, perhaps someone familiar with the sources takes another look at it? Army strengths mentioned, for example. 129.78.56.155 (talk) 02:13, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Ummayad Strength
It seems unlikely that the Ummayads, even with Tibetan allies, could have a force of 250,000 in a region so far from their centre of power. 180.150.38.34 (talk) 09:25, 17 October 2023 (UTC)


 * The ummyads had local sogdian vassels and well as turkic allies and the point of the invasion was to take all of central asia 2603:8001:8446:6EBB:D8EF:E38A:B465:928 (talk) 23:50, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Battle of iis
porno 195.19.122.8 (talk) 18:21, 26 February 2024 (UTC)