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Genghis Khan defeats the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia.
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Genghis Khan
Founder of the Mongol Empire (c. 1162 – 1227)
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Khwarazmian Empire
Medieval Muslim empire (c. 1077–1231)
The Khwarazmian Empire, or simply Khwarazm, was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim empire of Turkic mamluk origin. Khwarazmians ruled large parts of present-day Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran from 1077 to 1231; first as vassals of the Seljuk Empire and the Qara Khitai,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Jalal al-Din Mangburni, also known as Jalal al-Din Khwarazmshah, was the last Khwarazmshah of the Anushtegin dynasty. The eldest son and successor of Ala ad-Din Muhammad II of the Khwarazmian Empire, Jalal al-Din was brought up at Gurganj, the wealthy capital of the Khwarazmid…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Battle of the Indus
1221 Mongol victory over the Khwarazmians
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Mongol campaigns in Central Asia
Series of military campaigns (1209–1236)
Mongol campaigns in Central Asia occurred after the unification of the Mongol and Turkic tribes on the Mongolian Plateau in 1206. Smaller military operations of the Mongol Empire in Central Asia included the destruction of surviving Merkit and Naimans and the conquest of Qara…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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