What the records say
- When
- 1401
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 33.35° N, 44.34° E
- Description
- 1401 siege
Siege of Baghdad (1401)
In 1401, Timur, the ruler of the Timurid Empire, besieged the Jalayirid Sultanate capital of Baghdad for forty days and then massacred its inhabitants for resisting. The Turco-Mongol army looted the treasury and razed much of the city, except for mosques and madrasas. Contemporaries reported that each Mongol soldier was ordered to bring at least one severed head of an inhabitant.
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