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Battle of Hamadan

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

Iran

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Hamadan (1220), part of the Conquest of Genghis Khan. Mongols defeated Khwarezmian Empire. Battle followed by a massacre.

Belligerents2

Mongols
Khwarezmian Empire

ON THE MAPMongol EmpireKhwarezmian Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFConquests of Genghis Khan

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 Hamadan (1220). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-hamadan · Sources & methodology