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Battle of Nishapur

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

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Nishapur (1221), part of the Conquests of Genghis Khan. Mongols defeated Persia. Battle followed by a massacre.

Belligerents2

Mongols
Persia

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 Nishapur (1221). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-nishapur-1221 · Sources & methodology