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Name: Empire of Trebzond (Mongol Empire)

Type: Polity

Start: 1243 AD

End: 1260 AD

Nation: trebzond

Parent: mongol empire

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After the Battle of Köse Dağ, the Empire of Trebizond became a vassal of the Mongol Empire (from 1260 a vassal of its successor in the region, the Ilkhanate).

Establishment


  • June 1243: Battle of Köse Dağ: Decisive Mongol victory. The Sultanate of Rum and the Empire of Trebizond became vassals of the Mongols.
  • Chronology


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    1. 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.

  • January 1255: The Empire of Trebzond (Mongol Empire) captured Sinope in 1254.

  • 2. Mongol Civil Wars


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

    2.1.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.

    2.1.1.Division of the Mongol Empire

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

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

  • Disestablishment


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


  • Kopalyan, N. (2017): World Political Systems after Polarity, Taylor & Francis, p. 164
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