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Destruction of Merv (1221)
On the Mongol Empire map as “Merv”
1221 — Merv, one of the world’s great cities, surrenders after being promised mercy. The promise is broken. Ibn al-Athir and Juvaini put the dead in the hundreds of thousands, and one gives a figure of 1.3 million. The numbers are impossible; the archaeological silence that follows is real.
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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