Jalal al-Din rebuilds a Khwarazmian state in Iran

1228

The last Khwarazmian prince, who had leapt into the Indus to escape Genghis Khan, reassembled an army in Iran and carved out a brief, violent empire stretching from Isfahan to Tbilisi. His doomed kingdom lasted barely a decade before the Mongols returned to finish what they had started. His raids into Georgia and Armenia scattered Christian populations and accelerated the region's decline into Mongol vassalage.