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Baybars raids Cilicia, 673

غزو بيبرس بلاد سيس سنة 673هـ

c. March 1275 CE · Ramadan 673 AH

Masisa (Mopsuestia)

Ramadan 673 — al-Zahir raided the Cilician lands: Masisa, Adana and Ayas; the army came home with great captives and booty beyond count 1.

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Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Anatolia
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era

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Campaign against Cilicia

In Ramadan 673 AH Sultan al-Malik al-Zahir raided the land of Cilicia 1.

He took al-Massisa, Adhana and Ayas, and the army returned with a great number of captives and countless spoils 1.

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السلطان الظاهر ركن الدين بيبرس البندقداري
Occurred at
Masisa (Mopsuestia)

People and things also explored

The battle of Ayn Jalut and the defeat of the Tatars· Baybars takes Jaffa, Beaufort and Antioch, 666· Baybars takes Caesarea and Arsuf, 663· Death of al-Zahir Baybars, 676· Baybars takes Hisn al-Akrad and Akkar, 669· Baybars takes Safed, 664· The Euphrates crossing to relieve al-Bira, 671· The Building of the Fortress of Masisa

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 594
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The battle of Ayn Jalut and the defeat of the Tatars

In 658 the Tatars crossed the Euphrates, put Aleppo to the sword and reached Damascus; the Egyptians marched that Sha'ban, al-Muzaffar leading with Rukn al-Din Baybars al-Bunduqdari his shalish — they met the Tatars at Ayn Jalut on Friday 15 Ramadan and routed them utterly, the first great breaking of their tide. The rejoicing flew to Damascus; Baybars drove them beyond Aleppo — promised the city, then refused it — the germ of their falling-out.