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Otrar

Fortified Silk Road city in present-day Kazakhstan whose governor's execution of a Mongol trade caravan in 1218 gave Genghis Khan his casus belli for the invasion of Khwarazm; besieged and sacked the following year.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1219 CE mainstream
  Mongol siege and sack under Genghis Khan source

Where

42.8525° N, 68.3028° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otrar

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