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Merv

Oasis city on the Silk Road that may have been the world's largest city in the 12th century, with perhaps half a million people, before Tolui Khan's Mongol army destroyed it in 1221 in one of history's deadliest sieges.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1150 CE mainstream
  peak as possibly the world's largest city source
• 1221 CE mainstream
  Mongol destruction under Tolui Khan source

Where

37.6628° N, 62.1925° E

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.59641/hh278kt
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merv

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