Encyclopedia of the peoples of Asia and OceaniaArchived 2013-05-28 at the वेबैक मशीन, Barbara A. West, Infobase Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8160-7109-8, ... From there Yelu Dashi and his army, taking the name Kara Khitai, continued southwest into Central Asia. In 1130 these Kara Khitai defeated a joint Seljuk Turk–Karakhanid (Karluks) army on the steppes near Samarkand to establish themselves as one of the strongest kingdoms in Central Asia ...
Encyclopedia of the peoples of Asia and OceaniaArchived 2013-05-28 at the वेबैक मशीन, Barbara A. West, Infobase Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8160-7109-8, ... From there Yelu Dashi and his army, taking the name Kara Khitai, continued southwest into Central Asia. In 1130 these Kara Khitai defeated a joint Seljuk Turk–Karakhanid (Karluks) army on the steppes near Samarkand to establish themselves as one of the strongest kingdoms in Central Asia ...