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Siege of Baghdad (1258)
On the Mongol Empire map as “The fall of Baghdad”
Feb 1258 — After a week of bombardment, the caliph al-Musta‘sim surrenders on a promise of safety. Baghdad is sacked, and the caliph is rolled in a carpet and trampled: royal blood must not touch the earth. The 500-year Abbasid caliphate ends, and the books of the House of Wisdom are scattered. The tale of the Tigris running black with ink is legend; the mass graves are real. Remember Baghdad.
When Feb 1258 Type Site of memory Chapter Fall of Baghdad and Ain Jalut (chapter 8 of Mongol Empire)Atlas The Mongol Empire, 1206–1294 SITE OF MEMORY · THE MONGOL EMPIRE, 1206–1294 These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — historical political boundaries · Asia for Educators — Expansion under Ögödei · Asia for Educators — Collapse of the Empire and Four Sectors · ISEAS Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre Working Paper 25 — Mongol campaigns · Peter Jackson, Encyclopaedia Iranica — Mongols · The Metropolitan Museum of Art — The Legacy of Genghis Khan · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · Janet Martin — Medieval Russia 980–1584, chronology · Institute of History of Ukraine — Mongol invasion and its consequences
Source details Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Selected dated polygons; documented unions, differences and shared edges for event-specific reconstructions; projected for display. Asia for Educators, Columbia University. Text consulted for historical facts; no map or prose copied Asia for Educators, Columbia University. Text consulted for historical facts; no map or prose copied ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute. Historical facts consulted; no map or prose copied Peter Jackson / Encyclopaedia Iranica. Historical facts consulted; thematic geometry independently reconstructed Qamar Adamjee and Stefano Carboni, 2003. Historical facts consulted; no image or prose copied Natural Earth. Public domain Janet Martin, Cambridge University Press. Historical facts consulted; no map or prose copied Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine, 2019. Historical facts consulted; thematic geometry independently reconstructed Published polity extents are used at the date resolution available in their sources. Hatched affected regions and route arrows are educational reconstructions; the source details distinguish them from imported boundaries.
proxy: 1206 reference extent · proxy: Goryeo 1227–1259 territorial reference · reconstruction: 1237–1240 · reconstruction: 1250–1259 territory; post-1253 allegiance · reconstruction: 1250–1271 · reconstruction: 1250–1278 · reconstruction: 1250–1284 · reconstruction: 1258 · reconstruction: 1260 · reconstruction: 1260; pre-conquest Tibetan reference 1139–1235 · reconstruction: 1260; regional outlines from pre-conquest 1206 principalities · reconstruction: 1260–1271 · reconstruction: 1260–1278 · reconstruction: 1260–1284 · reconstruction: 1260–1313 · vector: 1072–1325 · vector: 1072–1374 · vector: 1111–1278 · vector: 1188–1271 · vector: 1188–1284 · vector: 1188–1304 · vector: 1192–1325 · vector: 1192–1362 · vector: 1202–1374 · vector: 1202–1743 · vector: 1210–1304 · vector: 1220–1313 · vector: 1236–1293 · vector: 1236–1452 · vector: 1241–1271 · vector: 1241–1278 · vector: 1241–1293 · vector: 1241–1313 · vector: 1241–1351 · vector: 1250–1271 · vector: 1250–1278 · vector: 1250–1284 · vector: 1250–1293 · vector: 1260–1271 · vector: 1260–1278 · vector: 1260–1284 · vector: 1260–1293 · vector: 1260–1313 · vector: 1260–1384 · vector: 1260–1394 · vector: 1260–1439 · vector: 1260–1474 · vector: 602–1501 · vector: 936–1271
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