اجتياح التتر بلاد الجبل وأذربيجان والكرج

In 617 AH the Mongols reached al-Rayy in pursuit of the Khwarazm Shah, and took it and plundered it while its people were off their guard. Then they went on to Hamadhan, Zanjan and Qazvin, then Azerbaijan and the lands of the Georgians. Ibn al-Athir relates this in "al-Kamil". ¹

They plundered every town and village on their way. The head of Hamadhan went out with money, clothes and animals asking for safe conduct; they granted it and then left them. They went to Zanjan, then to Qazvin, whose people held out and fought them, and they took it by force. Ibn al-Athir counts more than forty thousand killed from the people of Qazvin. ¹

When winter came they moved to Azerbaijan and reached Tabriz, and its lord Uzbek ibn al-Bahlawan made peace with them with money, clothes and animals. Ibn al-Athir says that he was busy with heavy drinking. Then they turned to the lands of the Georgians, where about ten thousand of them fought them and were routed. ¹

A Turkish slave of Uzbek's slaves, named Aqush, joined the Mongols, gathering Turkmen and Kurds. He marched at their head to Georgia. The Georgians gathered near Tiflis, and were routed in Dhu al-Qa'da. ¹

Ibn al-Athir says that he has no doubt that whoever comes after them, when time has passed, will find this event hard to believe and will deny it. ¹

617 AH, with a Gregorian equivalent (around 1220 CE) that is derived. ²