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Battle of Balkh

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Afghanistan

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Balkh (1370), part of the Conquests of Tamerlane. Tamerlane defeated Husayn of Balkh. Battle followed by a massacre.

Belligerents2

Tamerlane
Husayn of Balkh

Conflict graph

PART OFTimurid Conquests

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 (1370). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-balkh-1370 · Sources & methodology