Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty

Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty
Part of Mongol conquest of China and Kublai Khan's campaigns

Mongol invasion of the Southern Song dynasty (1234–79)
Date11 February 1235 – 19 March 1279
Location
Result Decisive Yuan victory
Territorial
changes
Southern China added into the Yuan dynasty
Belligerents
Commanders and leaders
Strength
Over 600,000[a] unknown
Casualties and losses
Very heavy Very heavy

The Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty or the Song-Yuan War beginning under Ögedei Khan (r. 1229–1241) and completed under Kublai Khan (r. 1260–1294) was the final step of the Mongol conquest of China. With the conquest the Mongols ruled all of the continental East Asia under the Yuan dynasty (a division of the Mongol Empire). It is also considered the Mongol Empire's last great military achievement.[2]

  1. ^ Igor de Rachewiltz (1993). In the Service of the Khan: Eminent Personalities of the Early Mongol-Yüan Period (1200–1300). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. pp. 42–. ISBN 978-3-447-03339-8.
  2. ^ C. P. Atwood Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, p. 509.


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