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Map of the Mongol Empire in 1221
Khwarazm annihilated
The Mongol Empire in 1221: Khwarazm annihilated. Since 1215, 6 territories changed status on this map: including Persia (Khwarazm, then Ilkhanate), Khwarazm & Khorasan (mod. Turkmenistan), Transoxiana (mod. Uzbekistan) and 3 more.
1221 · 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.
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What changes on the map
On the ground The belt of Khwarazmian cities was sacked and depopulated in 1219–21. The chapters of this moment
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