Sultanate of Khwarezmia (1220 CE) By Panzerbyte Watch

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When the Mongol Confederation under Temüjin got invaded in the year 1200 by the western Naimans and died in battle, he would never become the Genghis Khan, and thus the Qara Khitans were spared from eradication and could thrive again. The Cumans to the north displaced the Kipchaks which fled to the lands of Khwarezmia and were allowed to settle in the northern provinces in return for support against their enemies; the Cumans, the Ghurids and the minor Karakum tribes.

Samarkand was splintering to the weight of the Khitans who kept raiding their precious silk roads. It would only be a matter of time before both the Cumans and Qara Khitan powerhouses were going to conquer Khwarezmia.

This indirect Cuman threat to the Abbasids made them conquer the Ghaznavids and install a loyal Bedouin Sultan in Khwarezmia in 1220 CE. Remnants of Seljuq Turks that got eradicated by a joint force of the Byzantines and the kingdom of Georgia were eventually pushed back and subjugated where the fate of the Turks was sealed to be slowly going extinct as Beys of Merv.

This sultanate that was loyal to the caliphate did not last long as Sultan Ahmad changed the policy on northern tribes by mistake, thus allowing the Karakum tribes to slowly absorb Khwarzemia and Samarkand by 1235 CE.

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