Siege of Otrar
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The siege of Otrar took place between December 1219 and February 1220, during the Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire, at Otrar, a large trading city on the Syr Darya river. Inalchuq, the city's governor, had seized the goods of a Mongol trade caravan the previous year; after more provocations from Inalchuq's liege and ruler of the Khwarazmian Empire, Shah Muhammad II, Genghis Khan launched a full-scale invasion of the empire.
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Siege engines, including Chinese gunpowder weapons
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Auxiliaries, and engineers
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City garrison
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Aerial photograph of the archaeological site of Otrar.
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The remnants of the citadel at Otrar, which was comprehensively destroyed by the Mongols.
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Inalchuq
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Qaracha
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Siege of Otrar
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Location of the siege on a map of modern Kazakhstan
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Kazakhstan
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the Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire
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Otrar, present-day Kazakhstan
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Mongol victory
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The siege of Otrar took place between December 1219 and February 1220, during the Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire, at Otrar, a large trading city on the Syr Darya river. Inalchuq, the city's governor, had seized the goods of a Mongol trade caravan the previous year; after more provocations from Inalchuq's liege and ruler of the Khwarazmian Empire, Shah Muhammad II, Genghis Khan launched a full-scale invasion of the empire. The city had been extensively garrisoned and fortified, and the Mongol troops, who arrived in waves, found it difficult to breach the battlements. However, progress was slowly made, and by February, Genghis felt confident enough to detach part of his army and head southwards towards Transoxiana. His sons Chagatai and Ogedai were left behind to continue the siege. Qaracha, the leading general of the city, deserted in February 1220, and soon afterwards, the inner citadel fell. Inalchuq was captured alive, and was executed. Some sources relate that he was executed by having molten metal poured into his orifices; this story, symbolising his greed in seizing the caravans, is almost certainly apocryphal. Muhammad had expected the nomadic invaders to fail in capturing Otrar. Its seizure left the Khwarazmian heartland open to conquest — the Mongols would isolate and capture the great cities of Bukhara, Samarkand, and Gurganj in turn. The Otrar oasis would revive as the Syr Darya shifted in its course; the Khwarazmian citadel, however, would remain abandoned.
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