The Day of Thirst refers to a battle that took place in 724 A.D. between the Turkic Türgesh Khaganate and the Umayyad Caliphate, located along the banks of the Syr Darya river in Transoxiana, which is present-day Tajikistan in Central Asia. In the mid-7th century, following the Arab invasions of Persia and Khurasan, the Muslim Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate also conquered the region of Transoxiana. The indigenous Iranian and Turkic populations, along with local autonomous rulers, resisted this ... (Read More)