The Siege of Samarkand was a brief capture of the city by the Kingdom of Fergana

Fergana

Fergana is a city , the capital of Fergana Province in eastern Uzbekistan, at the southern edge of the Fergana Valley in southern Central Asia, cutting across the borders of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan...

, led by the forces of Babur

Babur

Babur was a Muslim conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the basis for the Mughal dynasty of South Asia. He was a direct descendant of Timur through his father, and a descendant also of Genghis Khan through his mother...

. In 1497, after Samarkand fell

Siege of Samarkand (1494)

The Siege of Samarkand was the first battle in the campaigns that Babur, the founder of the Mughal Empire, would fight. Babur was only twelve years old when he was ousted from his capital city of Samarkand by his rival, the Uzbegs. This would lead to two more sieges, unsuccessfully....

to the Uzbeks, Babur came back again when he turned fifteen years old. After seven months of brutal siege, Babur seized the city. A rebellion while he left took both Fergana and Samarkand out of his control.