Wahhabi sack of Karbala

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1802 · Karbala, Iraq · Middle East · War

Diriyah's warriors plunder a holy Shia city

In April 1802 the forces of the First Saudi State fell on Karbala, killed several thousand people and plundered the shrine of Imam Husayn. Over the next years the Saudis took Mecca and Medina, which the Ottomans won back only through Muhammad Ali of Egypt.

State: Ottoman Empire

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