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‘The Mongol period:the Il-Khans and their successors in Persia, Mawarannahr, and Eastern Anatolia (1256-1370[ce])**

The great destructive sweeps of the Mongol hordes through Iran between 1220[ce] and 1230[ce] and the defeat of the Seljuks in Anatolia in 1243 were followed by the permanent rule of the grandson of Chingiz, Hulagu (1256-65[ce], as first Il-Khan of the west, who extended the conquest to Baghdad (1258[ce]), Aleppo and Damascus (1260[ce]) and under Abaqa (1265-81[ce] his son, from 1278[ce] to Eastern Anatolia.***

‘The Mongols continued to prefer a semi-nomadic existence, moving each year between summer pastures in the lower mountains, and winter pastures in the plain.’

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*[Sic. See next ts journal entry?]

**{2048J~1280|JG~1408[ce]}

***2048J~1280[ce]

****– ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Arts 3:] 445

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