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Siege of Gurganj (1221)
On the Mongol Empire map as “Gurganj (Urgench)”
1221 — Gurganj, Khwarazm’s richest city and a northern hub of the Silk Road, holds out for months. It is then destroyed house by house; the chronicles say the Amu Darya was diverted through its ruins. Its wealth disappears, artisans are marched east, and the rest never leave.
When 1221 Type Site of memory Chapter Mongol invasion of Khwarazm (chapter 4 of Mongol Empire)Atlas The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294 SITE OF MEMORY · THE MONGOL EMPIRE, 1206–1294 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — historical political boundaries · Peter Jackson, Encyclopaedia Iranica — Mongols · Natural Earth — physical reference geography
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Selected dated polygons; documented unions, differences and shared edges for event-specific reconstructions; projected for display. Peter Jackson / Encyclopaedia Iranica. Historical facts consulted; thematic geometry independently reconstructed Natural Earth. Public domain The source stage comes later than the conquest of Khorasan. A regional patch anchored to cities transfers the documented conquest corridor within the later Mongol outline; its inferred edge is disclosed.
Published polity extents are used at the date resolution available in their sources. Hatched affected regions and route arrows are educational reconstructions; the source details distinguish them from imported boundaries.
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