Furthermore, at the same time that Talas took place, the Tang also sent an army from Shibao city in Qinghai to Suyab and consolidated Chinese control over the Turgesh.

The battle took place somewhere along the Talas River in the Talas valley.

At that time the Kazakh tribe community came back to their place and began to reconstruct the irrigation system in the Talas Valley.

Rashid al-Din claims that the meeting took place in the spring of 1269 in Talas, while Wassaf writes that it took place around 1267 to the south of Samarkand.

Rashid al-Din claims that the meeting took place in the spring of 1269 in Talas, while Wassaf writes that it took place around 1267 to the south of Samarkand.

The Battle of Talas was a key event in the history of paper-the technological transmission of the paper-making process.

He found Christian prisoners from Germany in the heart of " Tartary " ( at Talas ), and was compelled to observe the ceremony of passing between two fires, as a bringer of gifts to a dead Khan, gifts which were of course treated by the Mongols as evidence of submission.

Chinese infantry were routed by Arab cavalry near the bank of the River Talas.

Deep-seated landslide on mountain in Sehara, Kihō, Mie | Kihō, beside of Kumano river between Wakayama Prefecture | Wakayama and Mie Prefecture | Mie Japan caused by torrential rain of Tropical Storm Talas ( 2011 )

Billy Sheehan, after his band Talas completed a tour with Van Halen, claims he was approached by Eddie Van Halen to replace Michael Anthony.

In 751, some Chinese paper makers were captured by Arabs after Tang troops were defeated in the Battle of Talas River.

In the mix-up, a Tellarite kills Shran's lover Talas, and Shran avenges her death by demanding the Tellarite who killed her to fight to the death.

He was replaced by Talas bassist, Billy Sheehan.

Western expansion of the Tang Empire was checked in 751 by the defeat of a large expeditionary force led by General Gao Xianzhi in the Battle of Talas in the modern Fergana Valley, with the Arab victory attributable to the defection of the Karluk Turks during the midst of the battle.

Education was also encouraged, and the first paper mills, staffed by skilled Chinese prisoners captured at the Battle of Talas, were set up in Samarkand.

The Battle of Talas marked the end of the Tang Dynasty's western expansion of their territory, this representing the furthest point of territorial expansion to the west by the Tang, or any prior or subsequent Chinese dynasties.

Shortly after the battle of Talas, the domestic rebellion of An Lushan ( 755 – 63 ) and subsequent warlordism of the jiedushi ( 763 onwards ) caused the decline of Tang influence in Central Asia by the end of the 700s.

He again initiated a conflict, this time with the aid of the Kara-Khanids, and defeated a Kara-Khitai army at Talas ( 1210 ), but allowed Samarkand ( 1210 ) to be occupied by the Kara-Khitai.

The city was first recorded under the name " Talas " in 568 CE by Menander Protector, the medieval city of Talas was a major trade centre along the Silk Road.

Talas was later described by Xuanzang, who passed Talas in 629 and later wrote: Traveling westward from the Thousand Springs 140 or 150 li, we come to the city of Daluosi.

In 1723 the Talas Valley, as well as the major part of southern Kazakhstan were invaded by Dzungars who owned it nearly until 1755.

In the beginning of 19th century, the upper part of the Talas River Valley was again invaded by newcomers.

At first it was ruled by a military administration, later in 1867 it became the center of an Uyezd occupying nearly all of the territory of the modern Zhambyl Province of Kazakhstan and Talas Province of Kyrgyzstan.

They travelled by way of the former Tangut country, Khotan, Kashgar, Talas in the Syr Darya valley, Khorasan ( present day Afghanistan ), Maragha ( Azerbaijan ) and Mosul, arriving at Ani in Armenia.

Chinese intervention in the affairs of Western Turkestan ceased after their defeat at the Battle of Talas in 751 by the Arab general Ziyad ibn Salih.

Yaqubi reported the conversion of the Karluk-yabgu to Islam under Caliph Mahdi ( 775 – 785 ), and by the tenth century, several towns to the east of Talas had mosques.

The Battle of Talas in 751 CE was a conflict between the Arab Abbasid Caliphate and the Chinese Tang Dynasty over the control of Central Asia.

* 751: Arabian armies defeat Chinese Tang Dynasty troops in the Battle of Talas, in the high Pamirs near Samarkand, and conquer Central Asia completely.

* Arabian armies defeat Chinese Tang troops in the Battle of Talas near Samarkand.

It gained notoriety in the Middle East after the Battle of Talas between the Arabs and the Chinese Tang Dynasty in 751.

At the Battle of Talas in 751, Qarluq mercenaries under the Chinese defected, helping the Arab armies of the Islamic Caliphate to defeat the Tang force under commander Go Seonji ( d. 756, also known as Gao Xianzhi, a general of Goguryeo descent ).

Immediately after their victory, Abu al -' Abbas as-Saffah sent his forces to North Africa and Central Asia, where his forces fought against Tang expansion during the Battle of Talas ( the Abbasids were known to their opponents as the: " Black robed Tazi " (" Tazi ", Chinese: 大食 is borrowed from Persian.

Under Abbasid rule, the legend goes, the secret of papermaking was obtained from two Chinese prisoners from the Battle of Talas in 751, which led to the first paper mill in the Islamic world being founded in Samarkand.

In Central Asia, Islam expanded from the 7th century onward, bringing a stop to Chinese westward expansion at the Battle of Talas in 751.

During the 8th century, Ferghana was the location of fierce rivalry between the Tang Dynasty of China and the expansion of Muslim power, leading to the Battle of Talas in 751, which marked the victory of Islam and the disengagement of China from Central Asia.

The introduction of paper from China ( see Battle of Talas ) in 751, which had not yet been used in the West – the Arabs and Persians used papyrus, and the Europeans used vellum – had a profound effect.

# Redirect Battle of Talas

The Battle of Talas ( or Battle of Artlakh ) ( 怛羅斯會戰 ) ( معركة نهر طلاس ) in 751 AD was a conflict between the Arab Abbasid Caliphate and the Chinese Tang Dynasty, then under Emperor Xuanzong ( together with various other peoples and nations associated with the geographical territory involved ) for control not only of the Syr Darya region, but also a strategic area of Central Asia.

Beginning with a revolt against the Umayyad Caliphate, largely centered in Khurasan, not too far from Talas, the rising Abbasid Caliphate decisively defeated the rival Umayyad Caliphate, in the Battle of the Zab, in 750, which thus freed up their armies for other purposes, one of which would be challenge the Tang expansion into the region.

The Battle of Talas is important because of the resulting changes in the political fortunes of the rival sides, and in the region generally, not to mention the economic importance of control over this strategic region along the Silk Road.

The numeric quantities of the combatants involved in the Battle of Talas are not known with certainty, however various estimates exist.

( It was in the same year that the Tang suffered another serious defeat at the hands of the Arabs at the Battle of Talas in Central Asia ; these defeats weakened the dynasty both internally and externally.

He was later defeated at the Battle of Talas, and the Chinese withdrew from the region.