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There has been much discussion among historians as to why the Franco-Mongol alliance never became a reality and why, despite all the diplomatic contacts, it stayed a chimera or fantasy. [3] [8] Many reasons have been proposed: one was that the Mongols at that stage in their empire were not entirely focused on expanding to the West. By the late ...
France–Mongolia relations are the bilateral relations of France and Mongolia. While contacts were established between French and Mongol rulers in the 13th century, relations between the modern nations only became official on 27 April 1965, [ 3 ] only gaining momentum in the 1990s as a result of Mongolia's democratic revolution .
The Franco-Mongol alliance was an attempted alliance between Frankish Crusaders and the Mongol Empire against the Muslims, their common enemy. Contact between Europeans and Mongols began around 1220, and tended to follow a pattern: the Europeans asked the Mongols to convert to Christianity, while the Mongols (who had already conquered many Christian and Muslim nations in their advance across ...
Rabban ("monk" in Syriac) Bar Ṣawma was born c. 1220 in or near modern-day Beijing, known then as Zhongdu, [4] later as Khanbaliq under Mongol rule. According to Bar Hebraeus he was of Uyghur origin. [5] Chinese accounts describe his heritage as Öngüd, a Turkic people classified as members of the "Mongol" caste under Yuan law. [6]
Among the European monarchs, he alone remained interested in crusades to the Holy Land. Towards that end, he was pursuing a Franco-Mongol alliance with Arghun, ruler of the Mongol Ilkhanate in Baghdad. Arghun was seeking to join forces between the Mongols and the Europeans against their common enemy, the Muslim Mamluks.
Good point, though "Franco-Mongol alliance" is indeed how it is generally described. So maybe again: "The Franco-Mongol alliance was a series of diplomatic and military rapprochements between the Crusader Franks and the Mongols during the second half of the 13th century, which ended with very limited results and an ultimate defeat against the ...
André of Longjumeau led one of four missions dispatched to the Mongols by Pope Innocent IV.He left Lyon in the spring of 1245 for the Levant. [2] He visited Muslim principalities in Syria and representatives of the Church of the East and Syriac Orthodox Church in Seljuk Persia, finally delivering the papal correspondence to a Mongol general near Tabriz. [3]
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