THE GURS – THE GURLY TÜRKMENS

(in Afganistan and India)

Islamic calendar 543-612          Gregorian 1148- 1215

There had always been a few independent Hanates in the province of Ur, a mountainous place between Herat and Gazna. The Gur Turkmens had abode in the citadel of Firuzkuh. Gaznaly Mahmyt captured this city in 1010 (401). It was Muhammed Suri who was ruling there at that time. Suri’s grandfathers were ruling over Firushuh and Bamiyan when the