List of battles involving the Ghurid dynasty

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This is an incomplete list of battles fought by the [[Ghurids]].

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| style="background-color:#DDDDDD" width="10%" | '''India/Pakistan'''
| style="background-color:#FFFFCC" width="10%" | '''Turkmenistan'''
| style="background-color:#FFCCCC" width="10%" | '''Afghanistan'''
| style="background-color:#CCFFFF" width="10%" | '''Iran'''
| style="background-color:#BBBBBB" width="10%" | '''Uzbekistan'''
|}

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{| class="sortable wikitable"
!Year
!Name
!Location
!Ghurid commander
!Opponent
!Victor
|-
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|1011
|Ghaznavid invasion of Ghur
|[[Ghur]]
|[[Muhammad ibn Suri]]
|[[Mahmud of Ghazni]]([[Ghaznavids]])
|Ghaznavids<ref>Eliot and Dowson, ''[[The History of India, as Told by Its Own Historians]]'', Vol.2, 286.</ref>
|-
|-- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
|1107-1108
|Seljuq invasion of Ghur
|[[Ghur]]
|[[Izz al-Din Husayn]]
|[[Ahmad Sanjar]]([[Seljuq Empire]])
|Seljuq Empire<ref>''History of Civilizations of Central Asia'', C.E. Bosworth, M.S. Asimov, p. 185.</ref><ref name="Ghurids">''Ghurids'', C.E. Bosworth, '''Encyclopedia of Islam''', Vol.2, ed. Bernard Lewis, C. Pellat and J. Schacht, (E.J.Brill, 1991), 1100.</ref>
|-
|-- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
|1148
|[[Battle of Ghazni (1148)|1st Battle of Ghazni]]
|[[Ghazni]]
|[[Sayf al-Din Suri]]
|[[Bahram-Shah of Ghazna]]([[Ghaznavids]])
|Ghurids<ref>C.E. Bosworth, ''The Later Ghaznavids'', 113-114.</ref>
|-
|-- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
|1149
|Battle of Sang-i Surakh
|Near upper part of the [[Helmand River]]
|[[Sayf al-Din Suri]]
|[[Bahram-Shah of Ghazna]]([[Ghaznavids]])
|Ghaznavids
|-
|-- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
|1151
|[[Battle of Ghazni (1151)|2nd Battle of Ghazni]]
|[[Ghazni]]
|[[Ala al-Din Husayn]]
|[[Bahram-Shah of Ghazna]]([[Ghaznavids]])
|Ghurids<ref name="Jaques392">Jaques 2007, p. 392</ref>
|-
|-- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
|1152
|Battle of Nab
|Near [[Herat]]
|[[Ala al-Din Husayn]] Ali Chatri
|[[Ahmad Sanjar]]([[Seljuq Empire]])
|[[Seljuq Empire]]<ref name="Ghurids" />
|-
|-- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
|1157
|Battle of Ragh-i Zar
|Between [[Firozkoh|Firuzkuh]] and [[Herat]]
|[[Ghiyas ad-Din Ghori]]
|Fakhr al-Din Masud Tadj al-Din Yildiz
|[[Ghiyas ad-Din Ghori]] becomes victorious and suppresses the revolt.<ref name="The Iranian World 1968">''The Iranian World'', C.E. Bosworth, '''The Cambridge History of Iran''', Vol. 5, ed. J. A. Boyle, John Andrew Boyle, (Cambridge University Press, 1968), 163.</ref>
|-
|-- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
|1173
|3rd Battle of Ghazni
|[[Ghazni]]
|[[Muhammad of Ghor]](Ghurid general)
|Oghuz ruler of Ghazni
|Ghurids
|-
|-- bgcolor=#DDDDDD
|1175
|Battle of Multan
|[[Multan]]
|[[Muhammad of Ghor]](Ghurid general)
|Muslim ruler of Multan
|Ghurids<ref>Andre Wink, ''Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World'', Vol. 2, 244.</ref>
|-
|-- bgcolor=#FFCCCC
|1175
|Battle of Herat
|[[Herat]]
|[[Ghiyas ad-Din Ghori]]
|Baha al-Din Toghril([[Seljuq Empire]])
|Ghurids<ref name="The Iranian World 1968"/>
|-
|-- bgcolor=#DDDDDD
|1178
|[[Battle of Kayadara]]
|North-east of [[Anhilwara]]
|[[Muhammad of Ghor]](Ghurid general)
|[[Bhima II]] ([[Chaulukya dynasty]])
|Chaulukya dynasty
|-
|-- bgcolor=#DDDDDD
|1186
|Siege of Lahore
|[[Lahore]]
|[[Muhammad of Ghor]](Ghurid general)
|Khusrau Malik(Ghaznavids)
|Ghurids<ref>[http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ghaznavids ''Ghaznavids'', C.E. Bosworth, '''Encyclopedia Iranica''']</ref>
|-
|-- bgcolor=#FFFFCC
|1192
|Battle of Merv
|[[Merv]]
|[[Ghiyas ad-Din Ghori]] [[Muhammad of Ghor]]
|[[Sultan Shah of Khwarezm]]([[Khwarazmian dynasty|Khwarazmians]])
|Ghurids<ref name="Iranica-Ghurids">Encyclopedia Iranica, ''Ghurids'', Edmund Bosworth, Online Edition 2007, ([http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ghurids])</ref>
|-
|-- bgcolor=#DDDDDD
|1191
|[[First Battle of Tarain]]
|Near [[Thanesar]]
|[[Muhammad of Ghor]](Ghurid general)
|[[Prithviraj Chauhan]]([[Chahamanas of Shakambhari|Chauhan dynasty]])
|Chauhans<ref name="Spencer">'''A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East''', Vol. I, ed. Spencer C. Tucker, (ABC-CLIO, 2010), 263.</ref>
|-
|-- bgcolor=#DDDDDD
|1192
|[[Second Battle of Tarain]]
|Near [[Thanesar]]
|[[Muhammad of Ghor]](Ghurid general)
|[[Prithviraj Chauhan]]([[Chahamanas of Shakambhari|Chauhan dynasty]])
|Ghurids<ref name="Spencer" />
|-
|-- bgcolor=#DDDDDD
|1193/4
|[[Battle of Chandawar]]
|[[Firozabad|Chandawar]]
|[[Muhammad of Ghor]](Ghurid general)
|[[Jaichand of Kannauj]]([[Gahadvala|Gahadvala dynasty]])
|Ghurids<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Carnegy, P.|year=1873|title=Benoudha, Part III|journal=Calcutta Review|volume=56|issue=109|pages=43–58, [https://books.google.com/books?id=vJwbAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA50 pages 50 to 52]}}</ref>
|-
|-- bgcolor=#CCFFFF
|1200/1
|Battle of Nishapur
|[[Nishapur]]
|[[Ghiyas ad-Din Ghori]] [[Muhammad of Ghor]]
|[[Muhammad II of Khwarezm]]([[Khwarazmian dynasty|Khwarazmians]])
|Ghurids<ref>Ahmad Hasan Dani et al. [https://books.google.com/books?id=lodSckjlNuMC&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182ots=OMocFZUAz1&sig=XeLHhZi_IE1ALoMjj7FOn4ht6x0&hl=en History of civilizations of Central Asia, vol. IV], Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass Pub. (1999) {{ISBN|81-208-1409-6}}, p182</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9JQ3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA662&lpg=PA662&ots=6UgwWWL4Aq&sig=cUjPeyiHtJTftZTwrnG7eIwVACI&hl=en Enc. Islam, article: Muhammad, Mu'izz al-Din]</ref>
|-
|-- bgcolor=#FFFFCC
|1204
|Battle of Andkhud
|Banks of the [[Oxus River]]
|[[Muhammad of Ghor]]
|[[Muhammad II of Khwarezm]]([[Khwarazmian dynasty|Khwarazmians]])
|Khwarazmians
|-
|-- bgcolor=#DDDDDD
|1205 February–March
|Revolt of Khokars
|Between Lahore and Multan
|[[Muhammad of Ghor]]
|Khokhars
|Ghurids<ref name="Biran">Michel Biran, ''The Empire of the Qara Khitai in Eurasian History'', (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 70.</ref>
|-
|-- bgcolor=#BBBBBB
|1206
|Siege of Tirmidh
|[[Termez|Tirmidh]]
|[[Muhammad of Ghor]]
|[[Kara-Khitan Khanate|Kara-Khitan]] army
|Ghurids<ref name="Biran" />
|-
|-- bgcolor=#BBBBBB
|1206 Autumn
|2nd Siege of Tirmidh
|[[Termez|Tirmidh]]
|[[Ghurid]] army
|[[Kara-Khitan Khanate|Kara-Khitan]]/[[Khwarazmian dynasty|Khwarezmian]] army
|[[Kara-Khitan Khanate|Kara-Khitan]]/[[Khwarazmian dynasty|Khwarezmian]]<ref name="Biran" />
|}

==References==
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