Major conflict1258

Siege of Baghdad (1258)

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Baghdad · Iraq

Estimated casualties

200Ksingle estimate · no range published

Hulagu Khan's sack of Baghdad that ended the Abbasid Caliphate and killed hundreds of thousands.

Belligerents2

Mongol Empire
Abbasid Caliphate

ON THE MAPMongol EmpireAbbasid Caliphate

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Siege of Baghdad (1258) (1258). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/baghdad-siege-1258 · Sources & methodology