The Kalyan Minaret of Bukhara
The tower that Genghis Khan supposedly bowed to
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The Karakhanid ruler Arslan Khan built a minaret about 46 metres tall in Bukhara, wrapped in bands of patterned brick. Legend says Genghis Khan's hat fell off at its foot; having had to bow before the tower, he ordered it spared.
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Europe
- 1122 Concordat of Worms — 5 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1113 Vladimir Monomakh in Kiev — 14 years earlier
- c. 1113 The Primary Chronicle — 14 years earlier
- 1136 The Novgorod Republic — 9 years later
Middle East
- 1121 Battle of Didgori — 6 years earlier
Africa
- 1147 The Almohads take Marrakesh — 20 years later
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- Louis VI the Fat (aged 46)
- Anna Komnene (aged 44)