Mongol Empire · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Sack of Nishapur (1221)
On the Mongol Empire map as “Nishapur”
Apr 1221 — After Genghis’s son-in-law is killed by an arrow from the walls, his widow oversees the sack: the chronicles claim even the cats and dogs. Khorasan’s cities — Merv, Nishapur, Herat, Balkh — become the war’s deliberate message. Remember them as cities, not as numbers.
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- Mongol invasion of Khwarazm (chapter 4 of Mongol Empire)
- Atlas
- The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294
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