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Siege of Samarkand (1220)

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but the citadel, as in Bukhara, had to be taken by force. It held out for one month, before a small force managed to cut their way through the Mongol lines and escape over the Amu Darya. The Mongols released the elephants, which had survived, into the surrounding countryside, where they quickly died due to lack of food.
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The Mongols, having encircled the city, were engaged by the Turko-Iranian defenders. The sortie, which consisted of twenty war-elephants and a large body of cavalry, was ambushed and driven back. A sizeable section of the Samarkand garrison surrendered shortly afterwards, and were promptly executed,
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While medieval chroniclers have attributed huge forces to both sides, modern historians are more conservative in their estimates, but precise numbers are still widely disputed; the only certainty is that the total Mongol force was larger than the Shah's army. The Shah, who distrusted his commanders
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would restore the city after he made it his capital in 1370. He rebuilt the palaces and the city walls, which were still in ruins, and commissioned numerous mosques, gardens and pavilions to re-establish Samarkand's importance on an international level.
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was the Shah's capital and the pivot of his defence — the city's garrison was large and its battlements were one of the strongest in the empire. Genghis, however, managed to isolate it by
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desert to Bukhara. The city was stunned by the Mongol approach, which had been through an area previously thought impassable, and, after a sortie was annihilated along the
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in a surprise manoeuvre, and then laying waste to the nearby Transoxianan towns. After repelling relief forces, the Mongol army, now reinforced after
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A small force held out in the citadel for around one month, after which around half managed to break through the Mongol lines and escape over the
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and had not yet implemented his desired methods of administration, decided on a strategy of distributing troops inside his major cities, such as
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who were skilled in siege warfare came as a great shock. In any event, estimates for the city's garrison vary widely.
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detached from the vanguard and set off southwards, towards
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had split the forces of the Shah, which were located at
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Location of the siege on a map of modern Uzbekistan
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Siege of Samarkand (disambiguation)

Rashid ad-Din
Jami al-Tawarikh
Samarkand
Uzbekistan
39°37′N 66°58′E / 39.62°N 66.97°E / 39.62; 66.97
Mongol Empire
Khwarazmian Empire
Genghis Khan
Subutai
Jebe
Horse archers
Siege engines
Chinese gunpowder weapons
garrison
Samarkand is located in Uzbekistan
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Samarkand is located in Continental Asia
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Mongol invasion of Khwarazmia
Irghiz River
Otrar
Bukhara
Samarkand
Gurganj
Khorasan
Merv

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