"Alp Tigin, (Persian: \u0627\u0644\u067E\u062A\u06AF\u06CC\u0646\u200E\u200E; Alp Teg\u012Bn, Turkic for brave prince) sometimes spelled as Alptigin, a Turkish slave and Samanid governor of Khorasan, was the first Turkic emir of Ghazna between 962 to 963 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."@en . "Alp Tigin"@en . "0963Z"^^ . . . . "0963Z"^^ . "0962Z"^^ . "Alptigin"@en . . "Governor of Ghazna (Ghazni Province)" .