Mongol invasion of Byzantine Thrace

Mongol Invasion of Byzantine Thrace
Date	1263/1264
Location	Byzantine Thrace (modern-day northeastern Greece and western Turkey)
Result	Mongol victory
Belligerents
Mongol Empire	Byzantine Empire
Commanders and leaders
unknown	Michael VIII Palaeologus
Strength
unknown	unknown

Asia
Central Asia	Qara Khitai; Khwarezm;
West Asia	Caucassus; Anatolia; Persia Nizari state; ; Baghdad; Levant Palestine; ;
East Asia	China Western Xia; Jin; Eastern Xia; Song; ; Tibet; Korea; Sakhalin; Japan;
Southeast Asia	Vietnam; Burma (First, Second); Java;
Other invasions	India; Siberia;
Europe
	Kievan Rus; Volga Bulgaria; Cumania; Durdzuketi; Circassia; Alania; Poland and Bohemia (First, Second, Third); Hungary and Croatia (First, Second); Holy Roman Empire; Bulgaria and Serbia; Latin Empire; Lithuania; Byzantine Thrace; Serbia; Gazaria;

The Mongol invasion of Byzantine Thrace took place in the winter of AD 1263/1264. The Seljuk Sultan of Rûm Kayqubad II appealed to Berke, khan of the Golden Horde, to attack the Byzantine Empire in order to free his brother Kaykaus II.^[1]

^ Jackson 2014, p. 202.

[FOOTNOTEJackson2014202-1] Jackson 2014, p. 202.

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