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Khwarazmshah takes the Jibal

ملك خوارزم شاه بلد الجبل

c. 1216 CE · 613 AH

the Jibal

Khwarazmshah took the Jibal, uniting both Iraqs, Persia, Khurasan and Transoxiana under one hand 1.

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1200121012201230 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Ala al-Din Muhammad Khwarazm Shah took possession of the Jibal lands, and the Iraqi and Persian lands came together under him, along with Khurasan and Transoxiana 1.

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the Jibal
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خوارزم شاه علاء الدين محمد

People and things also explored

Perishing of the Khwarazmshah on an island in the Caspian Sea· death of Khwarazmshah Tekish· Ibn Khurmail killed; Herat besieged again· Khwarazmshah takes Ghazna and its dependencies· Khwarazmshah seizes the Ghurid lands in Khurasan· the Khwarazmshah retakes what the Ghurids had seized· Khwarazmshah's siege of Herat· Khwarazmshah takes Kirman, Makran and Sind

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 371
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Perishing of the Khwarazmshah on an island in the Caspian Sea

Genghis marched; Khwarazmshah fled the Jayhun to Nishapur, then Hamadan's field, where the enemy ringed him, killed his company, and he alone swam to an island — pleurisy took him, alone, shrouded in a farrash's cloth, in 617; his whole realm fell. Ibn al-Athir: 'the Tatar calamity — had one said the world since creation was never tried its like, he would speak true'.