Late Middle Ages · Central Asia · War
1374
Timur conquers Khwarezm after five campaigns
1374
After years of bloody back-and-forth, Timur finally crushed the Sufi dynasty of Khwarezm and razed the old oasis cities of Urgench and Kath. The irrigation canals that had sustained civilization on the Oxus delta for millennia were deliberately destroyed. Khwarezm's gardens became desert, and its refugees scattered across Central Asia.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.