Khwarazmian dynasty

Khwarazmian dynasty
Location Properties
Continent	Asia
Naming Properties
Demonym	Khwarazmian dynasty
Base Statistics
City Count	160
Square City Count	9
Base Population	55,610,773
Consumers Required to Upkeep	55.61
Base Income ($)	3,303,780
Base Manpower Capacity	1,112,216
Requirements
Starting Nation(s)	Iran Turkmenistan
Required Entities to Form	Iran Turkmenistan Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan Tajikistan
Achievements
Stability Gain	10
Interface
Decision Name	Restore our lands!
Decision Name	Restore our lands!
Decision Description	We're back stronger than ever! Long live the restored dynasty
Decision Description	We're back stronger than ever! Long live the restored dynasty
Title	Restore our lands!
Title	Restore our lands!
Description	We're back stronger than ever! Long live the restored dynasty
Description	We're back stronger than ever! Long live the restored dynasty
Enclosure	Excellent!
Enclosure	Excellent!
Resources
Aluminum	0.5
Aluminum	0.5
Chromium	3
Chromium	3
Copper	5.32
Copper	5.32
Gold	23.18
Gold	23.18
Iron	7.32
Iron	7.32
Oil	52.59
Oil	52.59
Phosphate	3.22
Phosphate	3.22
Tungsten	4.44
Tungsten	4.44
Uranium	1
Uranium	1
Electronics	32
Electronics	32

“	We're back stronger than ever! Long live the restored dynasty	„
	— Description of forming Khwarazmian dynasty

The Khwarazmian Dynasty is a formable of Iran and Turkmenistan located entirely in Asia . It encompasses the two starting nations, aswell as much of Central Asia except for Kazakhstan. Its a moderately hard formable, as Central Asia is required for many formables of near-superpowers like Russia and India.

Background

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The Khwarazmian dynasty was a Persianate Sunni Muslim dynasty of Turkic mamluk origin. The dynasty ruled large parts of Central Asia and Iran in the approximate period of 1077 to 1231, first as vassals of the Seljuqs and the Qara-Khitan, and later as independent rulers, up until the Mongol invasion of Khwarezmia in the 13th century. It's estimated that the dynasty spanned over an area from 2.3 to 3.6 million square kilometers.

The dynasty was founded by commander Anush Tigin Gharchai, a former Turkic slave of the Seljuq sultans, who was appointed as governor of Khwarezm. His son, Qutb ad-Din Muhammad I, became the first hereditary Shah of Khwarezm. Anush Tigin may belong to the Begdili tribe of Oghuz Turks or to either Khalaj, Qipchaq or Cigil Turks.

The date of the founding of the Khwarazmian dynasty remains debatable. During a revolt in 1017, Khwarezmian rebels murdered Abu'l-Abbas Ma'mun and his wife, Hurra-ji, sister of the Ghaznavid sultan Mahmud. In response, Mahmud invaded and occupied the region of Khwarezm, which included Nasa and the ribat of Farawa. As a result, Khwarezm became a province of the Ghaznavid Empire from 1017 to 1034. In 1077 the governorship of the province, which since 1042/1043 belonged to the Seljuqs, fell into the hands of Anush Tigin Gharchai, a former Turkic slave of the Seljuq sultan.

Sultan Ahmed Sanjar died in 1156. As the Seljuk state fell into chaos, the Khwarezm-Shahs expanded their territories southward. In 1194, the last Sultan of the Great Seljuq Empire, Toghrul III, was defeated and killed by the Khwarezm ruler Ala ad-Din Tekish, who conquered parts of Khorasan and western Iran. In 1200, Tekish died and was succeeded by his son, Ala ad-Din Muhammad, who initiated a conflict with the Ghurids and was defeated by them at Amu Darya (1204). Following the sack of Khwarizm, Muhammad appealed for aid from his suzerain, the Qara Khitai who sent him an army. With this reinforcement, Muhammad won a victory over the Ghorids at Hezarasp (1204) and forced them out of Khwarizm.

Ala ad-Din Muhammad's alliance with his suzerain was short-lived. He again initiated a conflict, this time with the aid of the Kara-Khanids, and defeated a Qara-Khitai army at Talas (1210), but allowed Samarkand (1210) to be occupied by the Qara-Khitai. He overthrew the Karakhanids (1212) and Ghurids (1215). In 1212, he shifted his capital from Gurganj to Samarkand.

In 1218, Genghis Khan sent a trade mission to the state, but at the town of Otrar the governor, suspecting the Khan's ambassadors to be spies, confiscated their goods and executed them. Genghis Khan demanded reparations, which the Shah refused to pay. Genghis retaliated with a force of 200,000 men, launching a multi-pronged invasion. The Mongols stormed Bukhara, Gurganj and the Khwarezmid capital Samarkand. The Shah fled and died some weeks later on an island in the Caspian Sea.

The son of Ala ad-Din Muhammad, Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu became the new Sultan (he rejected the title Shah). He attempted to flee to India, but the Mongols caught up with him before he got there, and he was defeated at the Battle of Indus. He escaped and sought asylum in the Sultanate of Delhi. Iltumish however denied this to him in deference to the relationship with the Abbasid caliphs. Returning to Persia, he gathered an army and re-established a kingdom. He never consolidated his power, however, spending the rest of his days struggling against the Mongols, the Seljuks of Rum, and pretenders to his own throne. He lost his power over Persia in a battle against the Mongols in the Alborz Mountains. Escaping to the Caucasus, he captured Azerbaijan in 1225, setting up his capital at Tabriz. In 1226 he attacked Georgia and sacked Tbilisi. Following on through the Armenian highlands he clashed with the Ayyubids, capturing the town Ahlat along the western shores of the Lake Van, who sought the aid of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm. Sultan Kayqubad I defeated him at Arzinjan on the Upper Euphrates at the Battle of Yassıçemen in 1230. He escaped to Diyarbakir, while the Mongols conquered Azerbaijan in the ensuing confusion. He was murdered in 1231 by Kurdish highwaymen.

Base Statistics

The Khwarazmian Dynasty has a base income of $4,205,911, and a manpower capacity of 1,110,173 on the starting Volunteer conscription law. As for more conscription laws, see below. It has a base population of 55,508,629.

Base Manpower Capacity of Khwarazmian_Dynasty per Conscription Law
The following columns below present the manpower capacity from lowest (Disarmed) to highest (Required). RP stands for "Recruitable Population".
Disarmed [1% RP]	556,108
Volunteer [2% RP]	1,112,216
Limited [5% RP]	2,780,539
Extensive [10% RP]	5,561,078
Required [25% RP]	13,902,694

Cities

Khwarazmian Dynasty has 158 cities with 9 of those being square cities.

Resources

Khwarazmian Dynasty produces a good amount of resources, though not enough to self-sustain itself. It is primarily rich in oil and gold.

Resources of Khwarazmian dynasty
Aluminum	+0.5
Chromium	+3
Copper	+5.32
Gold	+23.18
Iron	+7.32
Oil	+52.59
Phosphate	+3.22
Tungsten	+4.44
Uranium	+1

Geography

Terrain

The terrain of the Khwarazmian Dynasty is wildly diverse. Iran is infamously covered with Semi-Mountainous and Mountainous terrain, with the only flat area surrounding the city of Ahvaz. Except for its south, which is Hilly, all of Afghanistan has Semi-Mountainous terrain. Tajikistan is Semi-Mountainous to its west, Mountainous to its east, and flat in its northern panhandle. Eastern Kyrgyzstan and its southern panhandle is Mountainous, while the rest of the country is Semi-Mountainous. The only completely flat nations the formable has is Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Biome

Unlike the varying terrain, the country only has one biome, Arid, which takes up most of the Khwarazmian Dynasty except for Afghanistan's panhandle and the area west of it, all of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and the area surrounding Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent.

Strategy

Khwarazmian Dynasty is not very hard to form if you play your cards right. Most of the countries needed are often AI so there is little competition. Starting as Iran is far easier than Turkmenistan.

• Ally both India and Russia (or at least one of them).

This is because they need Khwarazmian Dynasty required countries to form. Make sure you have good diplomatic relationships with them.

• Immediately justify a war with Afghanistan and Iran/Turkmenistan when you join the game.
• Trade for some steel and motor parts to make tanks (or make your own steel and motor parts). (Don't do this as Turkmenistan until you have Uzbekistan, as Turkmenistan does not have a square city.)
• Also make sure you ally all non-A.I. countries around you unless you want to invade them.

Threats

• India might take Afghanistan to form the Maurya Empire.
• Russia usually takes the Central Asian countries for either of its formables.
• China may want to expand into Central Asia.
• Any Islamic countries wanting to form the Islamic Caliphate.
• Greece or Macedonia wanting to form the Macedonian Empire.
• Greece may want to form the Byzantine Empire.

Removed
North America
South America	• • • Patagonia
Europe	• • • • • • •
Asia	• Assyria • • • • • • • • • •
Africa	• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Oceania	• •