Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Alp Tigin, sometimes spelled as Alptigin, (Persian: الپتگین; Alp Tegīn, Turkic for brave prince) was governor of Ghazni Province in what is now Afghanistan between 961 to 963 AD after replacing the Lawiks, a native ruling dynasty. A Turk by origin or ethnicity, he is believed to have ruled this new territory as an extension of the Persian Samanid Empire in the north. He ruled for around 15 years and died in 365 AH.Before becoming governor of Ghazni, Alp Tigin was a general from Balkh (modern-day Afghanistan) who had risen from a mercenary to a general of the Governor of Khorasan. In a political fallout over succession of the Samanids he crossed the Hindu Kush mountains southward and captured Ghazni, located strategically between Kabul and Kandahar in modern Afghanistan, and thereby establishing his own kingdom, which, however, was still under Samanid authority. He was succeeded by his son, Abu Ishaq Ibrahim.. }
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- Alp_Tigin abstract "Alp Tigin, sometimes spelled as Alptigin, (Persian: الپتگین; Alp Tegīn, Turkic for brave prince) was governor of Ghazni Province in what is now Afghanistan between 961 to 963 AD after replacing the Lawiks, a native ruling dynasty. A Turk by origin or ethnicity, he is believed to have ruled this new territory as an extension of the Persian Samanid Empire in the north. He ruled for around 15 years and died in 365 AH.Before becoming governor of Ghazni, Alp Tigin was a general from Balkh (modern-day Afghanistan) who had risen from a mercenary to a general of the Governor of Khorasan. In a political fallout over succession of the Samanids he crossed the Hindu Kush mountains southward and captured Ghazni, located strategically between Kabul and Kandahar in modern Afghanistan, and thereby establishing his own kingdom, which, however, was still under Samanid authority. He was succeeded by his son, Abu Ishaq Ibrahim.".