The Ilkhanate was a Mongol state in Persia and the surrounding region, founded by Hulagu Khan, a grandson of Genghis Khan, who conquered Iran and Iraq, and who destroyed Baghdad and put an end to the Abbasid caliphate. Its capital was at Tabriz for much of its history. The Ilkhans were at first Buddhists or Christians in sympathy and fought the Mamluks of Egypt, who defeated them at Ain Jalut and later battles, but Ghazan converted to Islam, and the state became Muslim. The Ilkhanate supported trade, science and the arts, and the historian Rashid al-Din worked at its court. After the death of the ruler Abu Said without an heir, the state fragmented.
Before and after
- from 8 February 1250 to 11 February 1250Battle of Mansurah
- 1252Construction of Kōtoku-in Temple
- from 1253 to 1276Mongol campaign against the Nizaris
- 15 September 1254Birth of Marco Polo
- from 1256 to 1335Ilkhanate
- 1257Construction of Sorbonne
- 23 August 1258Birth of Osman I
- c. 1260sPublication of Poetic Edda
- from 18 January 1260 to 24 January 1260Siege of Aleppo
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The era
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