High Middle Ages · Middle East · Disaster
1046
Earthquake strikes Tabriz in Persia
1046
A powerful earthquake devastated the city of Tabriz in northwestern Persia, destroying mosques, bazaars, and residential quarters and killing tens of thousands. The disaster disrupted trade along the northern Silk Road routes and forced the city's reconstruction under Seljuk patronage, reshaping the urban landscape of one of the Islamic world's great commercial crossroads.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.