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| Battle of Sarakhs | |||||||
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| Part of the Timurid Civil Wars | |||||||
&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Locator_map_Iran_Razavi_Khorasan_Province.png) Khurasan Province in Iran where the battle took place | |||||||
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Timurids of Khurasan Timurids of Merv | Timurids of Samarkand | ||||||
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Ala al-Dawla Mirza Ibrahim Mirza bin Ala-ud-Daulah Sultan Sanjar Mirza (POW) † |
Abu Sa'id Mirza Amir Ali Farsi Amir Syed Asil | ||||||
Battle of Sarakhs took place in March 1459, at a location between Merv and Sarakhs.[1]
It was fought between the Timurids of Samarkand under Abu Sa'id Mirza and the confederacy of his rivals to Central Asian throne, the Timurids of Khurasan and Marv, namely; Ala al-Dawla Mirza, his son Ibrahim Mirza and Sultan Sanjar Mirza.[1]
- ^ a b C. Bathurst, J. F.; C. Rivington; A. Hamilton; T. Payne; T. Longman; S. Crowder; B. Law; T. Becket; J. Robson; F. Newbery; G. Robinson; T. Cadell, J.; T. Bowles; S. Bladon; J. Murray & W. Fox (1781). The modern part of An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time, Volume 5. Oxford University. p. 89. Retrieved 2013-02-02.