Samanid Empire

The Samani dynasty (Persie: سامانیان‎, Tajik: Сомониён - Sāmāniyān), forby kent as the Samanid Empire, or simply Samanids (819–999),^[4] was a Sunni^[5] Persian Empire^[6][7] in Central Asia, named efter its founder Saman Khuda, wha convert tae Islam^[8] despite bein frae Zoroastrian theocratic nobility. It wis a native Persie dynasty in Greater Iran an Central Asie efter the foonderin o the Sassanid Persie empire caused bi the Arab conquest.

Samani سامانیان
819–999
The Samanid Empire at its greatest extent under Isma'il ibn Ahmad
Caipital	Balkh, Bukhara
Common leids	Persian (releegious decree/mither tongue),[1][2] Arabic (art/science)[3]
Releegion	Sunni Islam
Govrenment	Emirate
Emir
• 819–855	Yahya ibn Asad
• 999	'Abd al-Malik II
Historical era	Medieval
• Established	819
• Disestablished	999
Aurie
928 est.	2,850,000 km2 (1,100,000 sq mi)
Precedit bi Succeedit bi Saffarid dynasty Abbasid Caliphate Alids of Tabaristan, Daylam and Gilan Ghaznavid dynasty Karakhanids Banu Ilyas
The day pairt o	Afghanistan  Iran  Kazakhstan  Kyrgyzstan  Pakistan  Tajikistan  Turkmenistan  Uzbekistan