Siege of Samarkand may refer to multiple sieges of
Samarkand
Samarkand ( ; Uzbek language, Uzbek and Tajik language, Tajik: Самарқанд / Samarqand, ) is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central As ...
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Battle of Samarkand (712), conquest of Samarkand by the Umayyads.
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Siege of Samarkand (1220)
The siege of Samarkand (1220) took place in 1220 A.D. after Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, had launched a multi-pronged invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire, ruled by Shah Muhammad II. The Mongols had laid siege to the border town ...
, in which the Mongols captured the city.
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Siege of Samarkand (1490s), a siege or series of two sieges of the city in either 1494 or 1496.
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Siege of Samarkand (1497) Siege of Samarkand may refer to multiple sieges of Samarkand
Samarkand ( ; Uzbek language, Uzbek and Tajik language, Tajik: Самарқанд / Samarqand, ) is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the List of oldest continuously inhabit ...
, a siege of the city in May 1497 in which Babur captured the city.
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Siege of Samarkand (1501)
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, a siege of the city in 1501 in which Babur failed to capture the city.
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Siege of Samarkand (1868)
The siege of Samarkand, or siege of the Samarkand Citadel, was a military engagement fought in the city of Samarkand (in modern-day Uzbekistan) in June 1868. In the engagement, a small garrison of Russian Imperial soldiers was besieged by a c ...
, a nine-day siege in which a Russian garrison repelled an attacking army of the
Bukharan Emirate
The Emirate of Bukhara (, ) was a Muslim- Uzbek polity in Central Asia that existed from 1785 to 1920 in what is now Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. It occupied the land between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, known former ...
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