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the battle of Chmankatuk endgd. The_next morning the
Mongols discovered that Ghiyath al-Din had fled (GA pp.
307-309). "~
Het urn's unusual account of the taking of eastern Asia
Minor shows numerous marks of a writer not well acquainted
with the details. In chp. 18, "Regarding Ogedei, Second
Khan of the Tatars* be recounts a number of Mongol battles
with_"the Turks", but Het'urn appears to have merged Jalal
al-Din with the sultan of Rum. After 10,000 Mongols were
put to flight by the Turks, Ogedei sent general Baiju
(Payton) "with 30,000 Tatar soldiers called damak or
reconnaissance troops...Now when Balju with ihe 30,000
soldiers reached the kingdom of the Turks, travelling day
by day, he learned that the sultan from whom the first
Tatars had fled had died, and that his son named K'iadati
(? Ghiyath ) had succeeded him. When the former heard
about the coming of the Tatars he was horrified and summoned
as many mercenary troops as he could from foreigners and
from the Latins. He had in his service among others,
2,000 Latins led by two commanders named Yohanes Llminad
from Cyprus, and the other, Vonipakioa born in Genoa.
[The Turkish sultan] also sent to neighboring sultans
promising anyone who came favors and gifts. And thus
gathering a great multitude of warriors, he went to the
place where the Tatars were encamped. However the Tatars
were in no way disturbed. Instead they valllantly waged
war as far as Konsedrak. In the end the Tatars were the
victors and the Turks were defeated in a masterly fashion.
In this way the Tatars captured the kingdom of the Turks
in the year of Our Lord 1244(Het'urn pp. 40-41).
The EC relates the conquest of western Armenia and the
sending to the Mongols by Rusudan ofher son David as events
occurring simultaneously. Queen Rusudan sent as messengers
to the Mongols Sahnsah, Awag, Vahram, and the eriat'av
(duke) of Heret'i, Sota. "While the queen was sending her
son [to the Mongols], .they had. decided to campaign against
the great sultan Ghiyath al-Din, by origin a Saljuq, master
of Rum, to subjugate him. They sent Bai.1u-noyin who took
with him the very preatest princes of Georgia. When they
reached the countries of Sebastia and £rznka, they started
to loot". The sultan approached the Mongols with an army
of 400,000 (!) commanded by two Georgians, "Sarvarsis-je
of Abxazia called Dard who had great renown from the very
first for his bravery and had remained firm in the faith;
and with him was P'ardavlay son of Salva Axalc'ixeli-T'oreli,
who had fled to the sultan and was a brave man.
renowned in warfare "(KC pp. 191-92; Mur. pp. 76-77). The
KC then describes the boasting of Mongol subject Sargis
Jalel, ivarlvare's grandson before Baiju. The Georgians
were all appointed as advance-attackers. "Now the Georgians
fought better and more bravely than any. A fierce battle
ensued and countless men were killed on the sultan's side,
including Sarvarsis-je called Dard Abxaz, their general.
The sultan's army took to flight and the Tatars and Georgians
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