# Bukhara is taken and burned in the Khwarezm war as later dated

Date: 1220

## The fact

In 1220 Bukhara was taken and burned in Chinggis Khan's Khwarezm war. Later Iranica and Britannica date the sack. It is not Samarkand. Genghis Khan's documented role is: His armies took Bukhara. Fire and killing are in Juvayni-as-later-English; unique integers are not invented.

## Context

A Friday-mosque sermon story in Juvayni is later prose, not a tape. Sharing the sack with the army is required. The setting of Bukhara is taken and burned in the Khwarezm war as later dated is the public file around 1220-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Encyclopaedia Iranica — Bukhara in the Mongol conquest neighbourhood at https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/cengiz-khan (Encyclopaedia Iranica). Independent locator: Britannica — Genghis Khan, Bukhara at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Genghis-Khan (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Encyclopaedia Iranica — Bukhara in the Mongol conquest neighbourhood (https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/cengiz-khan; Encyclopaedia Iranica). Independent carrier: Britannica — Genghis Khan, Bukhara (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Genghis-Khan; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Encyclopaedia Iranica — Bukhara in the Mongol conquest neighbourhood (https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/cengiz-khan; Encyclopaedia Iranica).

## Significance

Worsening path from Bukhara is taken and burned in the Khwarezm war as later dated on 1220-01-01. Sack of Bukhara is a humanitarian-harm path distinct from Samarkand. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Bukhara is taken and burned in the Khwarezm war as later dated under 1220-01-01 for Genghis Khan. Established: a sourced public record of Bukhara is taken and burned in the Khwarezm war as later dated under 1220-01-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin with Samarkand. Two cities, two Facts. Mixed effects of Bukhara is taken and burned in the Khwarezm war as later dated are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The attached driver is humanitarian-access. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Bukhara is taken and burned in the Khwarezm war as later dated. Naming Genghis Khan does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1220-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Genghis Khan: https://factrail.ai/people/genghis-khan

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/cengiz-khan
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Genghis-Khan

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/gk-bukhara-1220