The Fall Of Erzurum

With the policy he followed Ala al-Din Kayqubad managed to keep Anatolia away from the Mongolian Invasion which tyrannized the Fore Asia thoroughly. Ghiyath al-Din Kaykhusraw II, his son and the successor, could not maintain this policy after his father’s death. The weakness in the administration of the state emerged in the rebel of the Babais, and the Mongols took the advantage of it. Therefore they attacked Anatolia. The Mongols under the command of Baycu Noyan marched towards Erzurum after entering Anatolia with the army of 30 thousand soldiers. The siege which started in a fall of 1242 lasted for two months. At the end they captured the city and the city was subjected to the worst pillage, genocide and destruction of its history.

Keywords

Erzurum, Anatolian Seljukids, The Mongols, Baycu Noyan.