What the records say
- When
- 4 Jan 1300 – 12 Feb 1300
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 33.51° N, 36.29° E
- Description
- 1299–1300 siege
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Capture of Damascus (1299)
Mongol capture of Damascus
The Capture of Damascus (1299) was the occupation of the city of Damascus by the forces of the Ilkhanate under Ghazan Khan during the Ilkhanid–Mamluk war. Following the Mongol victory over the Mamluk Sultanate at the Battle of Wadi al-Khazandar in December 1299, Mongol forces advanced into Syria and entered Damascus after it was abandoned by its defenders.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In the Middle East, Mahmud Ghazan, designated by the Mongol Empire to be the Ilkhanate ruler of what is now Iran, completes the conquest of Damascus”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page