Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia has been an unsharable geography for the expansionist states that have been established in Iran and Egypt throughout history and have tended to expand their domain. This expansionist policy approach followed by the Assyrian, Urartu, Hittite and Egyptian states, which were the main political powers of the antiquity in the region, was also adopted by the later states. Because, Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia, located between the Black Sea, the Caucasus, the Persian Gulf and the Eastern Mediterranean basin, became the political and military operation area of the surrounding states due to its geo-strategic location. XIII. Undoubtedly, this geography was one of the reasons of competition for the Mamluk State established in Egypt in the second half of the century and the Ilkhanate State established in Iran.
In this study, by focusing on the Ilhanlı-Mamluk struggles, which are concentrated in the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia axis, the effects of these struggles on the region are discussed. It has been observed that the competitive relations that lasted for about a century caused changes in the demographic, cultural and economic structure of the region. In this study; These changes were discussed by comparing the main sources of the period.
Keywords: Anatolia, Ilkhanid, Mamluk, Turcoman, Avirat
DOI Number: 10.9737/hist.2021.1007
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