High Middle Ages · Middle East · Politics
1228
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.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.