| Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty | |||||||||
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| Part of Mongol conquest of China and Kublai Khan's campaigns | |||||||||
 Mongol invasion of the Southern Song dynasty (1234–1279) | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Song dynasty | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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| Strength | |||||||||
| Over 600,000[a] | Unknown | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| Very heavy | |||||||||
The Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty (or Song–Yuan War) was the final phase of the Mongol conquest of China, beginning under Ögedei Khan (r. 1229–1241) and being completed under Kublai Khan (r. 1260–1294) . It is considered the last great military achievement of the Mongol Empire;[2] upon its completion, the Mongols ruled all of continental East Asia under the Chinese Yuan dynasty that had been founded as a division of the Mongol Empire.
- ^ Igor de Rachewiltz (1993). In the Service of the Khan: Eminent Personalities of the Early Mongol-Yüan Period (1200–1300). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 42. ISBN 978-3-447-03339-8.
- ^ C. P. Atwood Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, p. 509.
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