Mongols pursue Jalal al-Din into Azerbaijan

1228

Chormaqan Noyan led a Mongol army west into Azerbaijan chasing the last Khwarazmian sultan Jalal al-Din, who had rebuilt a fragile empire in the ruins of the old. The long pursuit would finally end with Jalal al-Din's murder by Kurdish bandits in 1231. His decade-long resistance became a symbol of doomed courage in Persian literature, the last prince who dared defy the Mongol tide.