Herat

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Herat, a city of Khurasan; to it Fayruz exiled the Persians whose descendants joined the Turkish Hayatila aiding Quhistan.

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Herat is a city of Khurasan. Al-Baladhuri reports that Firuz exiled to it a group of people from Fars who practised sodomy, and they became helpers to the people of Quhistan alongside the Hephthalite Turks. 1

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Ibn Khurmail killed; Herat besieged again· Khwarazmshah's siege of Herat· The Herat, Badghis and Bushanj Sulh

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خوارزم شاه علاء الدين محمد· Abd Allah ibn Amir· Aws ibn Tha'laba· Rabi' ibn Nahshal· Ibn Khurmail killed; Herat besieged again· Khwarazmshah's siege of Herat· The Herat, Badghis and Bushanj Sulh

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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خوارزم شاه علاء الدين محمد

The Khwarazmshah who ruled Khurasan and Transoxiana, cut the Abbasid khutba and marched on Baghdad till twenty days of snow turned him; in 592 he crossed the Jayhun demanding the old Seljuk terms — the caliph razed the dar al-saltana and gave no answer.