The Oghuz Yabghu State (750-1055)

After the fall of the Göktürks the Oghuz tribes moved west, to the lower Syr Darya and the shores of the Aral Sea. Around 750 a state formed there under a yabghu, with its capital at Yangikent on the Syr Darya.

The Arab traveller Ibn Fadlan passed through Oghuz lands in 922 and described their life, dress and customs. In the 11th century Mahmud al-Kashgari listed the 22 Oghuz tribes and their tamgas.

In the late 10th century a quarrel broke out between the yabghu and Seljuk Beg, the army commander, and Seljuk moved with his people to Jand. His grandsons went on to found the Great Seljuk state. The Oghuz Yabghu State itself broke up under Kipchak pressure in the mid-11th century.