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Arghun Khan ( Mongolian Cyrillic: Аргун; Traditional Mongolian: ᠠᠷᠭᠤᠨ; c. 1258 – 10 March 1291) was the fourth ruler of the Mongol empire's Ilkhanate, from 1284 to 1291. He was the son of Abaqa Khan, and like his father, was a devout Buddhist (although pro-Christian).
Also called: Il-Khan, or Ilkhan. Il-Khanid dynasty, Mongol dynasty that ruled in Iran from 1256 to 1335. Il-khan is Persian for “subordinate khan.”. Hülegü, a grandson of Genghis Khan, was given the task of capturing Iran by the paramount Mongol chieftain Möngke. Hülegü set out in about 1253 with a Mongol army of about 130,000.
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Ilkhanate. The Ilkhanate, also spelled Il-khanate was a khanate established from the southwestern sector of the Mongol Empire. The Ilkhanid realm was ruled by the Mongol House of Hulagu. Hulagu Khan, the son of Tolui and grandson of Genghis Khan, inherited the Middle Eastern part of the Mongol Empire after his brother Möngke Khan died in 1260.
Ilkhanate. The Ilkhanate or Il-khanate, ruled by the Il-Khans or Ilkhanids ( Persian: ایلخانان, romanized : Īlkhānān ), and known to the Mongols as Hülegü Ulus ( lit. 'people or state of Hülegü' ), [8] was a Mongol khanate established from the southwestern sector of the Mongol Empire.
Nov 6, 2019 · The Ilkhanate (or Ilqanate, 1260-1335 CE) was that part of the Mongol Empire (1206-1368 CE) which mostly covered what is today Iran and parts of Turkmenistan, Turkey, Iraq, Armenia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Established by the Mongol general Hulegu (d. 1265 CE), the Ilkhanate took its name from the Mongol term for viceroy, ilkhan, a title ...
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Arghun Khan aka Argon (Mongolian Cyrillic: Аргун хан) (c. 1258 – March 7, [1] 1291) was the fourth ruler of the Mongol empire's Ilkhanate, from 1284 to 1291. He was the son of Abaqa Khan , and like his father, was a devout Buddhist (although pro-Christian).
Shams al-Din’s fate, and Arghun appointed Sa’d al-Dawla (d.1291), whose financial effi-ciency and Jewish religion aroused much opposition, eventually costing him his life. Arghun did not launch any attack against the Mamluks, but sent four embassies to the West in a vain attempt to cement an alliance against them. (A famous Syriac record of one
