Mongol Empire · BATTLE SITE · 1219–20

Siege of Otrar (1219–20)

On the Mongol Empire map as “Otrar”

1219–20 — At this customs post, Governor Inalchuq murdered a 450-man Mongol trade caravan; the shah then killed the envoys sent to ask why. Otrar resists for five months. According to the chronicles, Inalchuq dies with molten silver poured into his eyes. The confrontation at Otrar began one of the era’s great wars.

When: 1219–20
Type: Battle site
Chapter: Mongol invasion of Khwarazm (chapter 4 of Mongol Empire)
Atlas: The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294

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Map showing Siege of Otrar (1219–20), battle site in The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294 — BATTLE SITE · 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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