High Middle Ages · Central Asia · War
1141
Battle of Qatwan
September 9, 1141
The Qara Khitai khan Yelu Dashi, last of the Khitan nobility, destroyed a Seljuk army under Sultan Sanjar on the Qatwan steppe north of Samarkand. News traveled west and curdled into the Prester John legend. The Seljuk eastern frontier collapsed for good, and the Central Asian cities of Bukhara and Samarkand passed under the rule of Buddhist overlords for the first time in centuries.
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Also in 1141 (3 other events on record)
- Treaty of Shaoxing · East Asia · Politics
- Battle of Lincoln · Europe · War
- Rout of Winchester · Europe · War
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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