Hulagu Khan

Where they went

2 related events

1. 1
   1258Siege of Baghdadcommander

   Hulagu, brother of Möngke Khan, took Baghdad and executed the caliph. The Abbasid Caliphate, over five centuries old, came to an end, and Hulagu founded the Ilkhanate.

2. 2
   1260Battle of Ain Jalutrelated figure

   The Mamluks of Egypt under Qutuz and Baybars defeated the Mongols at Ain Jalut in Palestine, halting the Mongol advance to the west.

People who appear alongside

• al-Musta’sim1213 – 1258

  Last Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, executed by the Mongols after the city fell in 1258

• Möngke Khan1209 – 1259

  Fourth Great Khan, who sent his brothers Hulagu to West Asia and Kublai against the Song, and died campaigning in Sichuan

• Qutuz1260

  Mamluk sultan who defeated the Mongols at Ain Jalut in 1260 and was assassinated by Baybars and others on the way home

• Baybars1223 – 1277

  Mamluk sultan, vanguard commander at Ain Jalut, who as sultan held off both the Mongols and the crusaders

Themes this person appears in

• Turkic-Islamic Empires and Other Civilizations1000 – 1533

  From the Ghaznavid raids on India to the Mughal Empire and Suleiman I — five centuries in which Turkic-led Islamic empires took western Asia and India, while Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas raised civilisations of their own

• The Mongol Conquests1206 – 1294

  From the rise of Genghis Khan to the Yuan conquest of the Song — eighty years in which the Mongols swept Eurasia from Goryeo to Hungary