| Battle of the Chirciq River | |||||||
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| Part of Timurid-Moghul Wars | |||||||
 modern day view of the dammed Chirciq River | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Chagatai Moghuls of Moghulistan | Timurids of Samarkand & Bukhara | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Sultan Mahmud Khan Muhammad Shaybani Khan (defector) |
Sultan Ahmed Mirza Mir Abdul Ali Tarkhan Muhammad Majid Tarkhan | ||||||
The Battle of the Chirciq River was fought between Sultan Mahmud Khan of Moghulistan and Sultan Ahmed Mirza, the Timurid ruler of Samarkand & Bukhara in 1488 CE over the city of Tashkent. The Moghuls decisively defeated the Timurids as a result of the defection of 3,000 Uzbeks under the command of Muhammad Shaybani Khan.[1]
- ^ Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat; N. Elias; Sir Edward Denison Ross (31 December 2008). A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia: The Tarikh-i-Rashidi. Cosimo, Inc. p. 696. ISBN 9781605201504. Retrieved 19 November 2012.