Draft:Siege of Erbil

Siege of Erbil
	Part of Mongol invasions and conquests
Date	1310
Location	Mesopotamia, Kurdistan Region
Result	Ilkhanate and Kurdish victory
Belligerents
Ilkhanate; Bradost Emirate	Assyrians
Commanders and leaders
Oljaitu; Kurdish citizens	Assyrians
Strength
10.000	30.000
Casualties and losses
Unknown	10.000

After the Division and conversion of the Mongols, Ilkhanate attacked the Christians population in Mesopotamia.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Battle

The Siege started by an invasion of the mongols on the Erbil Castle, defeating the Nestorians, then they allied with the local Kurdish Citizens from Bradost and cleaned up the city.^[1]^[3]

Aftermath

Local Christian population of Erbil got cleaned by the Ilkhanate and moved up from Erbil^[1]

The Mongols gave Erbil to the Kurdish people of Bradost and kept this region under Ilkhanate control.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913. Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-90-429-0876-5.
^ Melville, Charles (1999). The Fall of Amir Chupan and the Decline of the Ilkhanate, 1327-37: A Decade of Discord in Mongol Iran. Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies.
^ ^a ^b Kamola, Stefan; Morgan, David O. (2023), Kim, Hodong; Biran, Michal (eds.), "The Ilkhanate, 1260–1335", The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 181–242, ISBN 978-1-107-11648-1, retrieved 2025-01-09

[:0-1] Wilmshurst, David (2000). The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318-1913. Peeters Publishers. ISBN 978-90-429-0876-5.

[2] Melville, Charles (1999). The Fall of Amir Chupan and the Decline of the Ilkhanate, 1327-37: A Decade of Discord in Mongol Iran. Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies.

[:1-3] Kamola, Stefan; Morgan, David O. (2023), Kim, Hodong; Biran, Michal (eds.), "The Ilkhanate, 1260–1335", The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 181–242, ISBN 978-1-107-11648-1, retrieved 2025-01-09

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