Mongols vs Mamluks
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Mongols in the Near East - What Was the Name of the Mongol Empire?
In 1243 the Mongols invaded what would be modern day Turkey and they conquered that after winning a major battle against the Anatolian Seljuks. The next really big wave of invasions occurred from 1256 onwards and this was another major army led by a Mongol command called Huligu. This is also the army that is particularly well known for its conquest of Baghdad in 1258, a particularly brutal overthrow which with enormous loss of life. In the 1260s the Mongol Empire begins to break up and it extends from the Pacific Seaboard all the way across to the borders of Hungary and Poland. And you actually have some authors from this time complaining, well why aren't
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