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Mongol Conquest of the Jin Dynasty (1211-1234 CE)

Mongol campaigns destroying the Jurchen Jin state in North China (May 2012; Franke/Twitchett history not verified).

Event Details

  • Date: 1211 CE-1234 CE
  • Type: conquest
  • Civilizations: steppe-central-eurasian, sinitic-east-asia

Description

Mongol campaigns destroying the Jurchen Jin state in North China (May 2012; Franke/Twitchett history not verified).

Quantitative facts and their sourcing

  • Dates 1211-1234; outcome: Mongol-Song victory (Wikipedia infobox; Song allied with Mongols against Jin at the end).
  • No casualty totals asserted.
  • Candidate formal sources listed in the Wikipedia infobox/lead for this topic (METADATA-VERIFIED ONLY via Crossref/Open Library; NOT read; relevance to the figures above unverified): Sverdrup Carl 2010, 4. Numbers in Mongol Warfare.
  • PRIMARY-SOURCE (read 2026-10-12): end sourced: Jin shi 18: Tianxing 2 (1233) 11th month, the Song send 10,000 troops and 300,000 shi of grain to help the Yuan besiege Caizhou; 12th month the outer city falls; Tianxing 3 (1234) 1st month Aizong abdicates to Chenglin, then "hanged himself"; the city falls; "Jin perished" (金亡). Start (1211) not sourced from a primary text.

Confidence

medium (dates/outcome). Numbers marked "Wikipedia-compiled (stub)" come from a secondary aggregator and must be upgraded to page-level scholarly citations before any Official use.

Citations

  • jinshi-18-wikisource-zh [PRIMARY-READ] Toqto'a (chief compiler) (1344). Jin shi juan 18 (Aizong annals, part 2), Chinese text, zh.wikisource revid 2432702; read. Wikisource (zh). https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E5%8F%B2/%E5%8D%B718. Read 2026-10-12; location: Tianxing 2 (11th-12th month) and 3 (1st month).
  • may2012-mongol-conquests [formal] Timothy May (2012). The Mongol Conquests in World History. Reaktion Books. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17570026W. Verified 2026-10-11 (Open Library record found; edition exists, page-level not checked).
  • rossabi1988-khubilai-khan [formal] Morris Rossabi (1988). Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times. University of California Press. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4123800W. Verified 2026-10-11 (Open Library record found; edition exists, page-level not checked).
  • wp-mongol-conquest-of-jin [STUB (secondary aggregator)] Wikipedia contributors (2026). Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty (Wikipedia; secondary aggregator, stub-grade). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_the_Jin_dynasty. Verified 2026-10-11 (resolves).
  • m-sverdrup2010-4-numbers-in-mongol-warfare [formal] Sverdrup Carl (2010). 4. Numbers in Mongol Warfare. Journal of Medieval Military History. DOI 10.1515/9781846159022-004 (Crossref-verified). Verified 2026-10-11 (resolves).

Review status

SOFT draft. Not Official. Needs editor review of CAD tags (estimated) and page-level citation upgrade.

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conquest · 1211 CE-1234 CE

Mongol Conquest of the Jin Dynasty (1211-1234 CE)

Mongol campaigns destroying the Jurchen Jin state in North China (May 2012; Franke/Twitchett history not verified).

Evidence: Primary text read Draft estimate

What the record says

  • Unverified (Wikipedia-compiled) Dates 1211-1234; outcome: Mongol-Song victory (Wikipedia infobox; Song allied with Mongols against Jin at the end).
  • Note No casualty totals asserted.
  • Candidate sources Candidate formal sources listed in the Wikipedia infobox/lead for this topic (METADATA-VERIFIED ONLY via Crossref/Open Library; NOT read; relevance to the figures above unverified): Sverdrup Carl 2010, 4. Numbers in Mongol Warfare.
  • Primary text PRIMARY-SOURCE (read 2026-10-12): end sourced: Jin shi 18: Tianxing 2 (1233) 11th month, the Song send 10,000 troops and 300,000 shi of grain to help the Yuan besiege Caizhou; 12th month the outer city falls; Tianxing 3 (1234) 1st month Aizong abdicates to Chenglin, then "hanged himself"; the city falls; "Jin perished" (金亡). Start (1211) not sourced from a primary text.

Confidence. medium (dates/outcome).

Where it sits

Sources and evidence

No page-level citation is claimed for any source. Figures marked unverified come from a Wikipedia aggregator and are not for Official use.

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