Mongol destruction of Merv
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A Mongol army under Tolui takes and destroys Merv, one of the largest cities in the world at the time. Medieval sources give death tolls of several hundred thousand that modern historians regard as heavily inflated. The city never recovered, which is why its remains survive so completely.
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- Story
- A Mongol army under Tolui takes and destroys Merv, one of the largest cities in the world at the time. Medieval sources give death tolls of several hundred thousand that modern historians regard as heavily inflated. The city never recovered, which is why its remains survive so completely.
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- Merv
- Mongol Empire
- Mongol destruction of Merv
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- Merv
- Mongol Empire
- Bukhara
- Antioch on the Orontes
- Mongol Empire
- Mongol destruction of Merv
- Merv
- Marco Polo
- Temujin is proclaimed Chinggis Khan
- Mongol destruction of Merv
- Marco Polo's journey to Asia and back
- Plague strikes the besieging army at Kaffa
- Plague reaches the Mediterranean
- Evidence
- The best-preserved of the great oasis cities of the Central Asian Silk Roads, a sequence of adjacent walled cities occupied over four millennia, largely unbuilt over since the Mongol destruction of 1221.
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