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Do you know that exactly 1270 years ago, the great battle that decided not only the future of Kyrgyzstan, but the fate of the entire Central Asia took place in the territory of our homeland? Yes, if there are 14,000 wars in the history of mankind, one of the ten battles that changed the course of history was the Battle of Talas, which took place along the Talas River. In 134 Hijri, and in 751 of the current modern calendar, an event called the Battle of Talas, or Atlah, took place in the sources of world history between Arab, Turkish and Chinese forces. We would not be mistaken if we say that this event not only changed the fate of the peoples of this region, but was even the first step in the development of Islamic civilization. This war was a clash of civilizations and is considered to be the only Arab-Chinese war in history. The battle of Talas was mentioned in the books of al-Muttahara ibn Tahir al-Maqdisi, one of the Muslim historians of the middle ages, "Kitab al-baadu al-halk wa-t-tarih" and "al Kamil fi-t-tarih" by Ibn al-Asir. Information about this battle in Chinese sources was studied by an American researcher named Beckwith.