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Battle of Merv

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

Turkmenistan

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Merv (1221), part of the Conquests of Genghis Khan. Mongols defeated Khwarezm Empire. Battle followed by a massacre.

Belligerents2

Mongols
Khwarezm Empire

ON THE MAPMongol 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 Merv (1221). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-merv-1221 · Sources & methodology