siege of Merv (Persian: محاصره مرو) took place in April 1221, during the Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire. In 1219, Genghis Khan, ruler of the...

of 200,000. By 1210, it may have had as many as 500,000 residents, preceding such medieval metropolises as Constantinople and Baghdad. In 1221, Merv opened...

Between 1219 and 1221, the Mongol forces under Genghis Khan invaded the lands of the Khwarazmian Empire in Central Asia. The campaign, which followed...

heir of the now-deceased Muhammad II, arrived at the city on 10 February 1221, attempting to escape the ongoing Mongol siege at Gurganj, the capital of the...

son Shigi Qutuqu was said to have ordered the deaths of a further 100,000 at Merv in November 1221, after yet another rebellion. The figures do however...

Year 1221 (MCCXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. November – Emperor Theodore I Laskaris...

towards Kandahar which was under siege by a Mongol army and defeated them after a two-day battle.: 127  In autumn 1221, he then moved north to Parwan and...

Empire Siege of Merv (1221) – 1221 – Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire Battle of Marv or Battle of Merv – 1510 – Persian–Uzbek wars Battle of Lake...

between Merv and Balkh. A large number of Ghurid soldiers were slain who covered his retreat to the castle, including the Ghurid governor of strategic...

eventually defeated at the Battle of the Indus in November 1221. Although devastating in the short-term, the siege was not the city's end. In fact, the...

Battle of Parwan was fought between Sultan Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu of the Khwarazmian Empire and the Mongols ruled by Genghis Khan in September 1221 AD at...

being defeated by the Oghuz. After being sacked by the Oghuz, Merv declined and in 1221, the Mongols attacked it and burned down the mausoleum. It would...

the Khwarazmian capital of Gurganj was being besieged by Genghis's three eldest sons. The long siege ended in spring 1221 amid brutal urban conflict...

as independent rulers up until the Mongol conquest in 1219–1221. The date of the founding of the state remains debatable. The dynasty that ruled the empire...

succeeds. Estimation: Merv (in the Seljuk Empire) becomes the largest city in the world, surpassing Constantinople. Kim Pusik and his team of historians finish...

Nishapur, along with Merv, Herat and Balkh, was one of the four great cities of Greater Khorasan and one of the greatest cities of the Old World in the...

defeated at the Battle of Parwan in the autumn of 1221. News of this defeat led to large rebellions in several cities, including Merv and Herat. Unfortunately...

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Kingdom of Zimbabwe begins 1221: Merv, Herat and Nishapur are destroyed in the Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire. 1222: Andrew II of Hungary signs...

at the Battle of Andkhud (1204). The Tomb of Ahmed Sanjar was destroyed by the Mongols led by Tolui, who sacked the city of Merv in 1221, killing 700,000...

Khurasan and captured Nishapur, Merv, Sarakhs and Tus, reaching as far as Gurgan and Bistam. Kuhistan, a stronghold of the Ismailis, was plundered and...

Persia, and burn and pillage a few more cities. February – The cities of Merv (perhaps the world's largest up to this date), Herat and Nishapur which...

overcome by Jalal al-Din at the 1221 Battle of Parwan. Shigi Qutuqu continued his career as an official during the reign of his adopted brother Ögedei Khan...

Ġaznaviyān) was a Persianate Muslim dynasty of Turkic mamluk origin. It ruled the Ghaznavid Empire or the Empire of Ghazni from 977 to 1186, which at its at...

at Merv in 651. By 674, Muslims had conquered Greater Khorasan (which included modern Iranian Khorasan province and modern Afghanistan and parts of Transoxiana)...

campaigns (1216-1224) Mongol invasion of Georgia in 1221 and the Battle of the Kalka River in 1223 Mongol invasion of Western Xia, 1226-1227 Mongol Empire...

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of Turkic mamluk origin from the Bekdili clan of the Oghuz Turks. The Anushteginid dynasty ruled the Khwarazmian Empire, consisting in large parts of...

the Assizes of Ariano (a series of laws to rule the Norman Kingdom of Sicily) after the pacification of southern Italy. December 21 – Siege of Weinsberg:...

cities Otrar, Buhara, Merv and Samarkand. Shah's warlord Temur-Melik led a daring resistance when the Mongol troops besieged city of Khujand. Shah's son...