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Otrar Catastrophe

كارثة أترار

1219 CE · 616 AH† – 1219 CE · 616 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Draft card for the Otrar catastrophe of 1219, the fall of the city whose governor's killing of Muslim envoys opened the Mongol invasion; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Persia & Central Asia
Identifiers
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In time

121012201230
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Sources

  • al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir
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islam.museum contributors. “Otrar Catastrophe”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/otrar-catastrophe-1219/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-20.

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