Mongol Empire · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Destruction of Merv (1221)
On the Mongol Empire map as “Merv”
1221 — One of the world’s great cities surrenders on promise of mercy; the promise is not kept. Ibn al-Athir and Juvaini count the dead in the hundreds of thousands — 1.3 million, one writes. The numbers are impossible; the archaeological silence that follows is not. Remember Merv.
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- Site of memory
- Chapter
- Mongol invasion of Khwarazm (chapter 4 of Mongol Empire)
- Atlas
- The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294
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