The Khwarazmian Empire, or simply Khwarazm, was a culturally Persianate, Sunni Muslim empire of Turkic mamluk origin, ruled by the Anushtegin dynasty. The Khwarazmian Empire ruled large parts of prese
Coin minted under Atsiz, citing his Seljuk suzerain Ahmad Sanjar
Khwarazmshah Il-Arslan at his coronation, painting from the book Jami' al-Tawarikh (c. 1306–1314)
Mausoleum of Ala al-Din Tekish. Gurganj (present-day Konye-Urgench) was the first and most important capital of the Khwarazmian empire.
Muhammad II depicted in a 1430 manuscript of the Jami' al-tawarikh by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani