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Sack of Baghdad

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The sack of Baghdad, also called the siege of Baghdad,[1] was a Mongol-led siege followed by the destruction of the Abbasid capital of Baghdad as part of Hülegü Khan's advance towards Masyaf.[2]

After Hülegü took the Assassins' fortress of Alamut,[3][4] he continued with his campaign westward, attacking other fortresses throughout the Levant, in vengeance of his grandfather Genghis Khan's murder in 1227 at the hands of the Levantine Assassin Darim Ibn-La'Ahad and the Mongolian Assassin Qulan Gal,[5] as well as an attempt on his own life.[6] After a two-week siege,[1] the Mongols destroyed Baghdad, burning its libraries, the House of Wisdom, and killing most of its population, leaving behind only the "young and malleable".[2]

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