The Mongols take Maragha

ملك التتر مراغة

c. 1231 CE · 628 AH

Maragha

The Mongols took Maragha in Azerbaijan after pouring in in unheard-of numbers 1.

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122012301240 c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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The Tatars took the city of Maragha in the land of Azerbaijan after they had marched out there with hosts the like of which had never been heard of 1.

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Maragha
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The Mongols

People and things also explored

Abu Bakr ibn al-Bahlawan takes Maragha· Azerbaijan submits to the Mongols· Jalal al-Din reaches Amid and is routed there· Jalal al-Din's first clash with the Mongols in Azerbaijan· The Mongols burst into Azerbaijan· A Mongol detachment reaches Irbil and Daquqa· The Mongols enter Diyar Bakr and the Jazira· Capture and killing of al-Mustarshid at Maragha

Sources

  1. al-Kamil fi'l-Tarikh of Ibn al-Athir , p. 490
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Abu Bakr ibn al-Bahlawan takes Maragha

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