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Battle of Kufah

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

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Kufah (1060), part of the Seljuk Wars of Expansion. Arslan al-Basasiri defeated Seljuks. Battle followed by a massacre.

Belligerents2

Arslan al-Basasiri
Seljuks

ON THE MAPGreat Seljuk Empire

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 Kufah (1060). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-kufah · Sources & methodology