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Battle of Balkh

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

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Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Balkh (1153), part of the Wars of the Great Seljuk Sultanate. Oghuz Turks defeated Seljuk Sultanate of Khorasan.

Belligerents2

Oghuz Turks
Seljuk Sultanate of Khorasan

Conflict graph

PART OFWars of the Seljuk Empire

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Balkh (1153). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-balkh-1153 · Sources & methodology