Khwarezm / k w ə ˈ r ɛ z ə m / or Chorasmia / k ə ˈ r æ z m i ə / (Persie: خوارزم) is a lairge oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in wastren Central Asie, bordered on the north bi the (umwhile) Aral Sea, on the east bi the Kyzylkum desert, on the sooth bi the Karakum desert, an on the wast bi the Ustyurt Plateau.. Coordinates

Khwarezm (persiska: خوارزم, även Kharezm, Khorezm, Khorazm, Chorezm, med flera) är ett iranskt kulturområde i sydvästra Centralasien, beläget i nuvarande Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan och Tadzjikistan.Befolkningen talade under antiken och medeltiden khwarazmiska, ett numera utdött iranskt språk.. I området har det funnit en serie stater. Ett oghuzturkiskt rike, Khwarezmiderna, …

The Khwarezm Shah and his advisers assumed that the Mongols would invade through the Dzungarian Gate, the natural mountain pass in between their (now conquered) Khara-Khitai and Khwarezm Empires. One option for the Khwarezm defense was to advance beyond the towns of the Syr Darya and block the Dzungarian Gate with an army, since it would take ...

History Founder of the dynasty. The founder of the Seljuq dynasty was an Oghuz Turkic warlord Seljuk.He was reputed to have served in the Khazar army, under whom, the Seljuks migrated to Khwarezm, near the city of Jend, where they converted to Islam in 985. Khwarezm, administered by the Ma'munids, was under the nominal control of the Samanid Empire. By 999 the Samanids …

The date of the founding of the Khwarazmian dynasty remains debatable. During a revolt in 1017, Khwarezmian rebels murdered Abu'l-Abbas Ma'mun and his wife, Hurra-ji, sister of the Ghaznavid sultan Mahmud. In response, Mahmud invaded and occupied the region of Khwarezm, which included Nasa and the ribat of Farawa. As a result, Khwarezm became a province of the …

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Khwarazmshah was an ancient title used regularly by the rulers of the Central Asian region of Khwarazm starting from the Late Antiquity until the advent of the Mongols in the early 13th-century, after which it was used infrequently. There were a total of four families who ruled as Khwarazmshahs—the ...

Ala ad-Din Muhammad II (Persian: علاءالدین محمد خوارزمشاه; full name: Ala ad-Dunya wa ad-Din Abul-Fath Muhammad Sanjar ibn Tekish) was the Shah of the Khwarazmian Empire from 1200 to 1220. His ancestor was Anushtegin Gharchai, a Turkic Ghulam who eventually became a viceroy of a small province named Khwarizm.He is perhaps best known for inciting the Mongol conquest of …