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Event

Siege of Baghdad (1258 CE)

Mongol conquest of the Abbasid capital using siege engines and engineers, with massive urban destruction.

Islamic

Event Details

  • Date: January-February 1258 (13 days of siege)
  • Type: siege
  • Civilizations: islamic, steppe-central-eurasian

Description

Mongol conquest of the Abbasid capital using siege engines and engineers, with massive urban destruction.

Quantitative facts and their sourcing

  • Figures not reliably recorded. Why: Batch G: Fordham Hulagu page still HTTP 500; Wayback lookup timed out; Rashid al-Din (Thackston) and Juvaini (Boyle) are in copyright.

Confidence

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

Citations

  • 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).
  • wp-siege-of-baghdad-1258 [STUB (secondary aggregator)] Wikipedia contributors (2026). Siege of Baghdad (1258) (Wikipedia; secondary aggregator, stub-grade). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258). 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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siege · January-February 1258 (13 days of siege)

Siege of Baghdad (1258 CE)

Mongol conquest of the Abbasid capital using siege engines and engineers, with massive urban destruction.

Evidence: Stub only Draft estimate

Details pending

Details pending. Only a Wikipedia summary stands behind this conflict so far. No figures, units or casualty numbers are shown until a scholarly source has been read.

Why no primary source yet. "Batch G: Fordham Hulagu page still HTTP 500; Wayback lookup timed out; Rashid al-Din (Thackston) and Juvaini (Boyle) are in copyright."

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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