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Mongol invasions of Anatolia

13th century · 13th century

The Mongol invasions of Anatolia were the campaigns by which the Mongol Empire subdued the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum in the mid-13th century. A Mongol army under Baiju defeated Sultan Kaykhusraw II at Köse Dağ in 1243, making the sultanate a tributary, and Baiju defeated the Seljuks again in 1256. Anatolia then came under the Ilkhanate, whose decline in the early 14th century allowed Turkish beyliks, among them the Ottomans, to rise.

Mongol invasions of Anatolia
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