Late Middle Ages · Middle East · War
1393
Tamerlane sacks Baghdad
1393
Timur took the ancient Abbasid city after its Jalayirid sultan fled. Though he spared the scholars, craftsmen were deported to Samarkand, and the population was decimated in a general massacre. Baghdad, still recovering from Hulagu's devastating 1258 sack, took another hammer blow from which it would not fully recover for centuries.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.