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The Mongol invasion of Central Asia however would entail the utter destruction of the Khwarezmid Empire along with the massacre of much of the civilian population of the region. According to Juvaini, the Mongols ordered only one round of slaughter in Khwarezm and Transoxiana, but systematically exterminated a particularly large portion of the ...
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Boyle, John Andrew The Mongol World Enterprise, 1206–1370 (London 1977) ISBN 0860780023; Hildinger, Erik. Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History of Central Asia, 500 B.C. to A.D. 1700 ; May, Timothy. The Mongol Conquests in World History (London: Reaktion Books, 2011) online review; excerpt and text search; Morgan, David. The Mongols (2nd ...
This map shows the boundary of the 13th-century Mongol Empire and location of today's Mongols in modern Mongolia, Russia and China. Geographic distribution Today, the majority of Mongols live in the modern states of Mongolia, China (mainly Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang), Russia, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan.
Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, invaded Transoxiana in 1219 during his conquest of Khwarezm. Before he died in 1227, he assigned the lands of Western Central Asia to his second son, Chagatai Khan, and this region became known as the Chagatai Khanate.
Map of various Iranic nomadic peoples in Central Asia during the Iron Age highlighted in green Cuman–Kipchak confederation in Eurasia c. 1200 The boundary of 13th century Mongol Empire and location of today's Mongols in modern Mongolia, Russia and China
The Mongolic languages are a language family spoken in Eastern Europe , Central Asia, North Asia and East Asia. The best-known member of this language family, Mongolian, is the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia and the Mongol residents of Inner Mongolia and Buryatia, with an estimated 5.7+ million speakers. [13]
Central Asia is a region of Asia consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. [4] The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian suffix "-stan" (meaning 'land') in both respective native languages and most other languages.