Jalal al-Din reaches Amid and is routed there

وصول جلال الدين إلى آمد وانهزامه عندها

c. 1231 CE · 628 AH

Amid (Diyarbakir)

Jalal al-Din reached Amid and was utterly routed by the Mongols; Ibn al-Athir reports a merchant's estimate of more than fifteen thousand Muslim dead 1.

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122012301240 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Amid (Diyarbakir)

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Jalal al-Din ibn Khwarazm-shah reached Amid, where he was utterly routed by the Tatars. Ibn al-Athir reports from a merchant that they estimated the Muslim dead there at more than fifteen thousand. 1

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Amid (Diyarbakir)
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جلال الدين منكبرتي بن خوارزم شاه· The Mongols

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Jalal al-Din's first clash with the Mongols in Azerbaijan· War between al-Ashraf's and Jalal al-Din's armies· Azerbaijan submits to the Mongols· death of Suqman of Amid — his brother Mahmud succeeds· Jalal al-Din routs the Georgians· The Georgians enter and burn Tiflis· Jalal al-Din besieges Ani and Kars· Jalal al-Din plunders Armenia

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  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 492
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