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Siege of Nishapur | |||||||
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Part of the Mongol invasion of Khorasan | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Mongol Empire | Khwarazmian Empire | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Genghis Khan Tolui | Kaikhusraw † | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
Unknown | Unknown | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Unknown |
Entire force[2] Including civilians: 1,747,000 (Persian Chronicles)[3][4] 170,000 (other sources)[5] Only 400 skilled workers survived[6][7] |
The Siege of Nishapur occurred on April 1221 between the Mongol Empire led under Genghis Khan and Tolui and the Khwarazmian Empire under Kaikhusraw[8][9][10]. During the first assault, Genghis Khan’s son-in-law, Tuqachar Barlas, was killed by arrow that was shot from the city during an unsuccessful engagement with the city[11]. After the fall of Merv, Genghis and Tolui advanced to Nishapur and the city fell in only three days[12][13][14][15]. In an act of revenge, Genghis allowed his daughter, who was pregnant at the time, to carry out what the punishment of the city would be. She decreed that none of the citizen’s of the city would be spared and ordered the soldiers to pile the severed heads of the dead citizen’s into the three pyramids - one each for the men, women and children[16][17][18]. It’s been said that not even the animals were spared the massacre[19]. According to Persian chronicles, the Mongols massacred the population of 1,747,000 people, the worst Mongol atrocity until the siege of Baghdad[20][21][22]
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