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Battle of Damascus

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

Syria

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Damascus (1401), part of the Conquests of Tamerlane. Timurid Empire defeated Mamlukes. Battle followed by a massacre.

Belligerents2

Timurid Empire
Mamlukes

ON THE MAPTimurid EmpireMamluk Sultanate

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 Damascus (1401). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-damascus-1401 · Sources & methodology