Siege of Merv
1221 · Event
Tolui takes Merv, one of the world's great cities, and has nearly all its inhabitants killed; chroniclers claim hundreds of thousands of dead.
On these timelines: Mongol Empire, Persia and Iran, The Islamic Golden Age, Master
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