- (Turkmen: Köneürgenç / کؤنهاۆرگنچ; Persian: کهنه گرگانج,
Kuhna Gurgānj,
literally "Old
Gurgānj"), also
known as Old
Urgench or Urganj, was a city of about...
- The
siege of
Gurganj was a
siege that
occurred during the
Mongol conquest of the
Khwarazmian Empire. The siege's
length is variable, with
historians such...
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isolate and
conquer the
Transoxianan cities of Bukhara, Samarkand, and
Gurganj.
Genghis and his
youngest son
Tolui then laid
waste to Khorasan, destroying...
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which he
subdued cities and
tribes to the north.
During the 1221
Siege of
Gurganj,
tensions arose between him, his brothers, and Genghis,
which never healed...
- responsibilities, but was
censured after feuding with
Jochi during the
Siege of
Gurganj.
After the campaign,
Chagatai was
granted large tracts of
conquered land...
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Muhammad II of the
Khwarazmian Empire,
Jalal al-Din was
brought up at
Gurganj, the
wealthy capital of the
Khwarazmid homeland. An able general, he served...
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dynasty and the ****htegin dynasty,
whose capitals were (among others) Kath,
Gurganj (now Konye-Urgench) and—from the 16th
century on—Khiva.
Today Khwarazm...
- The
Gurgānj Dam was a
major water engineering project of medieval-era
Central Asia. The dam was
constructed on the Amu
Darya (Oxus) river, near what is...
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Khwarazmian Empire was
Urganch or
Gurganj. A
prominent Middle Eastern biographer and geographer,
Yaqut al-Hamawi, who
visited Gurganj in 1219, wrote, "I have not...
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Gurganj, Abu'l-Husayn as-Sahi, a
patron of Gr**** sciences, that
Avicenna entered into the
service of Abu al-Hasan Ali.
Under the Ma'munids,
Gurganj became...
