The lord of Samarqand betrays the Khwarazmians

غدر صاحب سمرقند بالخوارزميين

c. 1208 CE · 605 AH

Samarqand

The lord of Samarqand betrayed the Khwarazmians and fell upon them — one of the Transoxanian upheavals of these years 1.

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1190120012101220 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Samarqand

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The lord of Samarqand betrayed the Khwarazmians and attacked them. This was among the disorders beyond the Oxus in those years. 1

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خوارزم شاه علاء الدين محمد

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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 the Jibal

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  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 338
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Perishing of the Khwarazmshah on an island in the Caspian Sea

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