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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 .
Military alliances shortly before World War I. Germany and the Ottoman Empire allied after the outbreak of war.. This is the list of military alliances.A military alliance is a formal agreement between two or more parties concerning national security in which the contracting parties agree to mutually protect and support one another militarily in case of a crisis that has not been identified in ...
I am nominating this article for A-Class review because I would eventually like to re-nominate the article for FA status. The Franco-Mongol alliance article has a long and complex history, having been the subject of two arbitration cases and various related amendments and other motions over the last few years, but it appears to be stable now.
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He was a Mongol ambassador to Europe from 1289 to 1305, serving the Mongol rulers Arghun, Ghazan and then Oljeitu. The goal of the communications was to form a Franco-Mongol alliance between the Mongols and the Europeans against the Muslims, but despite many back-and-forth communications, the attempts were never successful.
René Grousset mentions especially "Louis IX and the Franco-Mongol alliance" (p521), "Only Edward I understood the value of the Mongol alliance" (p.653) "Edward I and the Mongol alliance" (p.653), "Edward I renewed the precious Mongol Alliance" (in "L'épopée des Croisades", p.301), "The Franco-Mongol coalition, of which the Hospitallers were ...
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]