Franco-Mongol alliance
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title:
Franco-Mongol alliance
text:
Several attempts at a Franco-Mongol alliance against the Islamic caliphates, their common enemy, were made by various leaders among the Frankish Crusaders and the Mongol Empire in the 13th century. Such an alliance might have seemed an obvious choice: the Mongols were already sympathetic to Christianity, given the presence of many influential Nestorian Christians in the Mongol court. The Franks—Western Europeans, and those in the Levantine Crusader states—were open to the idea of support from th
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13th century attempts at an alliance
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Mongol_alliance
date created:
2007-08-26T19:49:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T17:43:30Z
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