I was listening to a podcast on Ghenghis Khan. I had no idea that he obliterated the muslims in 1219.
Ghengis Khan leveled a city in one of the ‘stans that refused to yield then had one of his son’s chase its escaping Emir hundreds of miles across Iran. The Emir managed to stay one day ahead and wasn’t in the clear until he got a boat and headed out into the Caspian sea only hours before the Mongols arrived at the shore.