Editing Alp Arslan (section)

=== Defense of Tokharistan (1043–44) ===
Taking advantage of the illness of the governor of [[Greater Khorasan|Khorasan]] [[Chaghri Beg|Chaghri]], the Ghaznavid Sultan [[Mawdud of Ghazni|Mawdud]] attacked the [[Tokharistan]] region held by the Seljuks with the [[Ghaznavid]] army.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bosworth |first=Clifford Edmund |title=The Later Ghaznavids: splendour and decay the dynasty in Afghanistan and Northern India, 1040-1186 |date=1977 |publisher=Edinburgh university press Columbia university press |isbn=978-0-85224-315-2 |series=Persian studies series |location=Edinburg New York |pages=26}}</ref> Alp Arslan, who was in the city of [[Balkh]] at the time, defeated the [[Ghaznavids]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ercilasun |first1=Konuralp |url=https://www.kitapyurdu.com/kitap/turk-tarihinde-liderler/533754.html |title=Türk Tarihinde Liderler |last2=Özgüdenli |first2=Osman Gazi |last3=Hunkan |first3=Ömer Soner |last4=Kemaloğlu |first4=İlyas |last5=Piyadeoğlu |first5=Cihan |last6=Yıldırım |first6=Kürşat |last7=Ersan |first7=Mehmet |last8=Göksu |first8=Erkan |last9=Alan |first9=Hayrunnisa |date=2023-05-19 |publisher=Yeditepe Yayınevi |isbn=978-605-7800-58-9 |editor-last=Yeşilot |editor-first=Okan |language=tr |editor-last2=Köksal |editor-first2=Bihter Gürışık}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bosworth |first=Clifford Edmund |title=The later Ghaznavids: splendor and decay: the dynasty in Afghanistan and northern India 1040-1186 |date=1977 |publisher=Univ. Press |isbn=978-0-85224-315-2 |series=Persian studies series |location=Edinburgh |pages=26}}</ref> A subsequent [[Ghaznavid]] attack was also repelled. The defeated [[Ghaznavids]] retreated, abandoning the places they had captured.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MAWDUD B. MASʿUD |url=https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/mawdud-b-masud/#:~:text=(Rajab%20432/March,Alp%20Arsl%C4%81n |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=Encyclopaedia Iranica |language=en-US}}</ref> Later, he defeated [[Kara-Khanid Khanate|Kara-Khanid]] Arslan Khan, who attacked the lands under the rule of [[Chaghri Beg|Chaghri]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=SELÇUKLULAR |url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/selcuklular#:~:text=Tirmiz%E2%80%99i%20eline%20ge%C3%A7irip%20Belh%E2%80%99i%20almak%20i%C3%A7in%20Ceyhun%E2%80%99u%20ge%C3%A7en%20Karahanl%C4%B1%20H%C3%BCk%C3%BCmdar%C4%B1%20Arslan%20Han,%20%C3%87a%C4%9Fr%C4%B1%20Bey%E2%80%99in%20o%C4%9Flu%20Alparslan%E2%80%99a%20yenilip%20geri%20d%C3%B6nd%C3%BC.%20Daha%20sonra%20%C3%87a%C4%9Fr%C4%B1%20Bey%20ile%20Arslan%20Han%20aras%C4%B1nda%20bar%C4%B1%C5%9F%20yap%C4%B1ld%C4%B1 |access-date=2025-05-04 |website=TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi |language=tr}}</ref>