The Turco-Mongol Invasions and the Lords of Armenia in the 13 ...

their particular districts were expected to feed and
accomodate one or another party of Mongols, yet as a
consequence of this were ravaged by the mutually inimical
Mongol armies as punishment for aiding enemies.
The situation outlined above continued more or less
unchanged until the reign of Ghazan-Khan (1295-1304).
For the rest of Abaqa'a reign and during those of his
successors Ahmad, Arghun, and Geikhatu , we see Armeno—
Georgian forces fighting and suffering defeat from the
Mamluks (1281J1; fighting the next year in the Far East
against yet another Mongol state ruled by the descendants
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of Chingiz' grandson Chaghatai ; and fighting the armies
of the Golden Horde, which in 1287 once again attempted
to invade Caucasia . In this period other woes befell the
Armenians, both peasant and noble. As a result of the
strengthening of the Muslim Mamluks in Egypt, Islamic
Turkic elements in Asia Minor began to take heart, to
form secret alliances with their co-religioniats against
the Mongols, and to loot and pillage whenever they thought
they could succeed. The brunt of Turkmen viilence was the
HAP III p. 634; SMP p. 363.
Ibid. KG p. 284; Mur. p. 152.
S^P PP. 370-71.
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