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Siege of Samarkand

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

Samarkand · Central Asia

Estimated casualties

200Ksingle estimate · no range published

The Mongol siege and conquest of the major Silk Road city of Samarkand.

Belligerents2

Mongol Empire
Khwarazmian Empire

ON THE MAPMongol EmpireKhwarezmian Empire

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Siege of Samarkand (1220). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/samarkand-siege · Sources & methodology