Maveraunnehir, destroying the Samanly (Samanid) State. Subsequently, their struggle with the Gaznalys started. In 1042 the state was divided into two parts, East and West Garahanly, as they could not resist the power of the Gaznaly Soltan Mahmyt.

The Garahanly State has the distinction of being the first Türkmen state that accepted the religion of Islam.

Great OGUZ Türkmen STATE

This was the state founded by the Oguz tribes. In ancient Arab and Chinese sources, one comes across the word ‘Ýabgu’. ýabgu (or ýagby) is a title meaning ‘Great’. Those tribes which founded the Oguz Ýabgu State later established ‘Nine Oguz Khanates’ alongside the Don River after the collapse of the Gaznaly State.

The most significant activity of the Oguzs was in Maveraunnehir at the beginning of the 10^th century. They called the state they founded on the territories they had inherited from their ancestors Oguz Ýabgu. Retreating from Khorasan, the Chinese frontiers and the banks of the Idil river, they were squeezed into the land between the Seýhun and Jeýhun Rivers. The Ýanykent, Garajyk, Saýran and Jent regions remained to them as a homeland.

The turmoil within the state in the middle of the 10^th century and the rapid spread of Islam caused the collapse of the Oguz Ýabgu State. Dukak, who was famous under the name Demir-Ýaýly (the man with the iron-arch), fought with Oguz Ýabgu. Later on his son, Seljuk, converted to Islam and broke away from Oguz Ýabgu.