Siege of Mayyāfāriqīn
| Siege of Mayyāfāriqīn | |
|---|---|
Mayyāfāriqīn 39°42′12″N 38°13′48″E / 39.703318°N 38.230024°E | |
| Result | Mongol victory |
Prosh Khaghbakian
Shahnshah Zakarian
Isma'il ibn Lu'lu'
The Siege of Mayyāfāriqīn in 1259–1260 was a Mongol siege against the last
In spring 1259, the Armenian Prince
The horrors of the long siege were recounted by the contemporary Armenian historian Kirakos:
They ate clean and unclean animals and then started to eat people when there was no more food. The strong ate the weak. When the [supply of] poor people was exhausted they turned against one another. Fathers ate sons, and women ate their daughters; and they did not spare the fruit of their wombs. Lovers renounced their loved ones and friends, their acquaintances. And the food supply had so diminished that one litr of human flesh sold for seventy dahekans. Men and food were entirely exhausted, and not just there [in the city], but danger threatened many other districts for those who were besieging the city harassed the land already subjugated by the Tatars with tax collecting and with conveying food and drink for them. Many people died from the extreme cold of the snow which covered the mountains in wintertime.
When the city was captured at last after a siege of two years, the Muslims were massacred, but the Christians were spared.[7][1] Christian relics were collected and brought back to Armenia, particularly to the Haghpat Monastery.[8]
The Armenian Prince Sevata of Kachen was killed in the conflict.
Finally the Ayyubid ruler Al-Kamil Muhammad was killed when Mayyafariqin fell to the Mongols on 7 April 1260 (23 Rabia II 658).[9]
Meanwhile
References
- ^ Hasan Prosh, were required to besiege Mayyafariqin, the northernmost Ayyubid base in the Jazira before the capture of Akhlat. It took two years to reduce the city, leading to a situation far worse than that faced in Akhlat in 1229–30.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-313-00111-6.
A small Mongol detachment, supported by a much larger force of Georgians and Armenians who saw themselves as participating in a crusade against the Muslims under the command of Georgian leader Hasan Brosh, moved against Diyarbekir, which fell after a long siege. While the siege was under way, Hulagu, together with a Christian army from Lesser Armenia, prepared to conquer Musim Syria. (...) He then crossed the Euphrates, and laid siege to Aleppo on January 18, 1260, with the support of Hethum's Armenians and the Frankish troops supplied by Bohemond VI from Antioch. (....) Operating under the Mongol security umbrella, Bohemond also seized the Muslim coastal enclave at Latakia, thereby resestablishing Frankish control of all land between Tripoli and Antioch for the first time since 1187.
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Badr al-Dīn Lu’lu’, who was in conflict with al-Kāmil Muhammad, sent a supporting force to the Mongols commanded by his son, along with siege engineers to Mayyāfāriqīn."
- ISBN 978-1-009-30197-8.
Prosh Khaghbakian , together with units of the Cilician army , participated in the siege of the fortress of Mayyāfāriqin in the spring of the same year.
- Pŕosh Khaghbakian. The Governor of Mosul, Badr al-Dīn Lu'lu', who was in conflict with al-Kāmil Muhammad, sent a supporting force to the Mongols commanded by his son, along with siege engineers to Mayyāfāriqīn.
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- ^ ISBN 978-0-8135-0627-2.
- St Maruta (c. 399–410), giving the city its alternative name of Martyropolis, the 'City of Martyrs'. The soldiers then gave these captured relics to their monasteries. Haghbatmanaged to acquire the hand of the Apostle St Bartholomew: 'And it really is still there.'
- ISBN 90 04 139648vol.21 p.354
- ^ Bai︠a︡rsaĭkhan 2011, p. 137 "Hűlegű demanded that the Georgian King David Ulu support his conquest of Syria and Egypt . Surprisingly, David refused. One might have expected that the Georgian king would have been more than interested in liberating the Holy Land . However, David was not only disinterested in this venture, but also bold enough to refuse Hűlegű’s order. In addition, he sought a revolt, which was suppressed by Arghun Aqa in Southern Georgia in 1260. David Ulu ’s refusal to participate in the Mongol campaign in Syria can be explained by his huge loss of men in the battle for Baghdad."
- ^ Humphreys, R. S. From Saladin to the Mongols, The Ayyubids of Damascus, SUNY Press 1977, pp.348-351