County of Tripoli (Ilkhanate)

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Was a Crusader state centered in Tripoli (modern-day Lebanon). After a period of Mongol vassalage (and later vassalage ot the Ilkhanate, one of the successor states of the Mongol Empire), it was finally conquered by Egyptian Mamluks.

Establishment

January 1261: The Mongol Empire fragmented into four political units: the Golden Horde, the Ilkhanate, the Yuan Dynasty and the Chagatai Khanate.

Chronology

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1. Mongol Civil Wars

Were a series of wars between the successor states of the Mongol Empire.

1.1.Toluid Civil War

Was a war of succession over the Mongol Empire fought between Kublai Khan and his younger brother, Ariq Böke, from 1260 to 1264.

1.1.1.Division of the Mongol Empire

The Mongol Empire fragmented into four successor states at the beginning of the Toluid Civil War.

2. Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the Medieval period. The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291.

2.1.Fall of Krak des Chevaliers

The Crusader fortress of Krak des Chevaliers fell to the Mamluk sultan Baybars in 1271.

March 1271: Baibars' army arrived at the Krak des Chevaliers, a Crusader's castle now located in Syria.

2.2.Fall of Tripoli (1289)

Was the capture and destruction of the Crusader state, the County of Tripoli (in what is modern-day Lebanon), by the Muslim Mamluks.

April 1289: The Siege of Tripoli in 1289 was led by the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, under the command of Sultan Al-Ashraf Khalil. The city was defended by the Knights Hospitaller, led by Grand Master Odo de Pins. The Mamluks eventually captured the city, ending Crusader control in the region.

May 1289: The Fall of Tripoli was the capture and destruction of the Crusader state by the Mamluks.

3. Mongol invasions and conquests

Were a series of military campaigny by the Mongols that created the largest contiguous Empire in history, the Mongol Empire, which controlled most of Eurasia.

3.1.Mongol-Mamluk Wars

Were a series of wars between the Mongols and the Muslim Dynasties of the Ayyubids and Mamluks.

3.1.1.Mamluk-Ilkhanid War

Was a war between the Ilkhanate, a successor of the Mongol Empire, and the Mamluks.

May 1285: Qalawun was the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt who raised an army in Damascus to besiege Margat in 1285. Margat was a fortress located in present-day Syria, strategically important for controlling the coastal region. The siege marked a significant event in the conflict between the Mamluks and the Crusader states.