Back غزوات المغول على فلسطين Arabic غزو سوريا (1299) ARZ Monqolların Fələstinə yürüşü Azerbaijani Блізкаўсходні паход манголаў Byelorussian Incursions mongoles a Palestina Catalan Mongolske felttog ind i Palæstina Danish Mongolaj invadoj al Palestino Esperanto Incursiones de los mongoles en Palestina Spanish حمله مغول به فلسطین Persian Mongolien hyökkäykset Palestiinaan Finnish

Mongol raids into Palestine

The 1260 Mongol offensives in the Levant. The early successful attacks on Aleppo and Damascus led to smaller attacks on secondary targets such as Baalbek, al-Subayba, and Ajlun as well as raids against other Palestine towns, perhaps including Jerusalem. Smaller raiding parties reached as far south as Gaza.

Mongol raids into Palestine took place towards the end of the Crusades, following the temporarily successful Mongol invasions of Syria, primarily in 1260 and 1300. Following each of these invasions, there existed a period of a few months during which the Mongols were able to launch raids southward into Palestine, reaching as far as Gaza.

The raids were executed by a relatively small part of the Mongol army, which proceeded to loot, kill, and destroy. However, the Mongols appeared to have had no intention, on either occasion, of integrating Palestine into the Mongol administrative system, and a few months after the Syrian invasions, Mamluk forces returned from Egypt and reoccupied the region with little resistance.[1]

  1. ^ Amitai, Mongol Raids, pp. 247-248

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