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The Siege of Baghdad was the investment, capture, and sacking of Baghdad, the historic capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, by the forces of the Mongol Empire and their allies under Hulegu Khan between late January and mid-February 1258. After Caliph al-Musta'sim refused Mongol demands for submission and military auxiliaries, Mongol forces surrounded the metropolis, breached its fortifications, and compelled its surrender on 10 February 1258. The subsequent pillage, mass slaughter, and destruction of monuments ended the five-century-old caliphate and long symbolized the close of the Islamic Golden Age.
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