High Middle Ages · Central Asia · War
1231
Ogedei sends Chormaqan to pacify Iran
1231
The Great Khan dispatched a Mongol army under Chormaqan Noyan to finish off the remnants of the Khwarazmian Empire in western Iran. Chormaqan established a permanent Mongol garrison at Mughan in Azerbaijan, from which the steppe rulers would administer the Iranian plateau for a generation. His forces systematically reduced the last independent fortresses across Khorasan, bringing the entire region under Mongol governance.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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