Mongol invasions of Sakhalin | |||||||
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Part of Mongol campaigns in Siberia | |||||||
Sakhalin and its surroundings | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Mongol Empire (Yuan dynasty) Nivkh people | Sakhalin Ainu | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Taxiala Tata'erdai Yangwuludai Others |
Waying Yushannu Others |
From 1264 to 1308, the Mongol Empire (and its successor the Yuan dynasty) made several incursions into the island of Sakhalin off the east coast of Siberia to aid their Nivkh allies against the Ainu, who had been expanding north from Hokkaido. The Ainu put up a tenacious resistance, even launching a counter-attack on Mongol positions on the continent across the Strait of Tartary in 1297, but finally capitulated to the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty of China in 1308.