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.