«Тахиййат»: Сборник статей в честь Н. Н. Дьякова

m 138 n John Masson Smith, Jr. tümen — of the army Hülegü had brought to Syria, and withdrawn in the spring of 1260 1 . The withdrawal is conventionally explained by the arrival of news of Möngke Qan’s death, but the springtime departure, in light of similarly-timed subsequent withdrawals, suggests climatic pressure: the increasing heat and 1 RaD, II, 502–503; eight Mongol commanders are named as leaders in the army; Hülegü and three others besieged and took Aleppo, while two more went to Mayyafariqin. One, Ket Buqa, was left to hold Syria and die at ‘Ayn J §låt. Fig. 7. Training on the Samarra “Racetrack”: movement of 2 units of “ten” ( Diagram by Jane Becker )