Mongols · 1260
Siege of Aleppo
Aleppo fell in January 1260 and Damascus surrendered soon after. Only Mamluk Egypt was left.
Key facts
- When
- 1260
- Where
- Aleppo, Syria
- Sides
- Mongols vs Ayyubids
- Commanders
- Hulagu Khan vs Turanshah
- Result
- City sacked
- Type
- Mongols
- Chapter
- 3. The Abbasids, the Crusades and the Mongols
The wider picture: The Mongol storm
Genghis Khan destroyed the Khwarazmian empire between 1219 and 1221. His grandson Hulagu took the fortress of Alamut in 1256 and Baghdad in February 1258. The last Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, al-Musta'sim, was put to death on Hulagu's orders, by most accounts rolled in a carpet and trampled.
More mongols battles
- Siege of Otrar1219 to 1220
- Siege of Gurganj1221
- Battle of the Indus1221
- Fall of Alamut1256
- Fall of Baghdad1258
- Battle of Ain Jalut1260
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