Hulagu Khan was said to have built a summer residence in the 1260s. Scientists are seen at the archaeological excavation site of what may be Hulagu Khan's palace in Van, Turkiye. Hulagu Khan, a ...
Baghdad, in 1257, was one of the great centres of Islam. It had become a showpiece of the world and besides mosques, palaces and irrigation work it showcased the world’s first hospitals and also the ...
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How the Mongols conquered Baghdad, 1258

Baghdad, the majestic capital city of the great Abbasid Caliphate. For centuries, the city was a center of culture, learning, ...
Hulagu Khan is well known for the sack of Baghdad in 1258. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The remains of a once resplendent ...
Hulagu Khan was a Mongol warlord who lived from 1217 to 1265 and conquered much of southwest Asia. He is known for the 1258 sack of Baghdad, then the religious and cultural capital of Islam, which ...
The text on this page tells of how the Mongols conquered Syria and defeated the lords of the powerful Ismaili sect of Islam. In red are the names of Hulagu Khan and his brother Mongke Khan, Mongol ...
Baghdadis have long memories. Talk to them about the extraordinarily turbulent history of the Iraqi capital as they contemplate their city falling to Islamic State (IS) fighters, and one date tends to ...
IT IS very unfortunate for Iraq that some Iraqis are redrawing the image of the Mogul massacre and depending on the Persian ‘Hulagu’ — Qassim Suleimani. If the Moguls painted the water of Tigris and ...
When in February 1258 the killing had stopped and the looting had paused, Hulagu, grandson of the creator of the world's prevailing superpower Ghengiz Khan, and the destroyer of the Abbasid dynasty, ...