Battle of Sighnaq (1509)
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| Battle of Sighnaq | |||||||
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| Part of the Kazakh–Uzbek War (1509–1510) of Kazakh–Uzbek Wars | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Kazakh Khanate |
 Khanate of Bukhara | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Janysh Sultan Ahmet Sultan  [1] |
Muhammad Shaybani Suyunchoja Khan Ubaydallah Sultan Kuchkunji Sultan Hamza Sultan | ||||||
The Battle of Sighnaq was a military battle between the Kazakh Khanate and the invading Khanate of Bukhara, during the Kazakh–Uzbek War of 1509–1510 in 1509.
In early 1509, a meeting was held in Bukhara, which Muhammad Shaybani of the Khanate of Bukhara gained the support from the Muslim clergy. Which agreed to invade the Kazakhs as a religious war. The Bukharan army soon invaded the Kazakhs in late January 1509. A force of 300,000 men soon reached the fortress of Arquq near Sighnaq.[2] Later other Shaybanid force crossed the Syr Darya and joined Shaybani.[2] In February 1509, the Syr Darya river had faced a heavy winter, halting the Bukharan advance until early March, where he reached the Kazakh ulus of Janysh Sultan.[3]