The Mongols and the Armenians(1220-1335) -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ACRONYMS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- Previous Scholarship -- Primary Sources -- CHAPTER ONE A BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THEARMENIANS AND MONGOLS -- The Armenians in Greater Armenia -- The Armenians in Cilician Armenia -- The Mongols -- CHAPTER TWO MONGOL NOYANS IN GREATER ARMENIA (1220-1245) -- The First Mongols in the Lands of the Armenians -- The Advance of Chormaghan on Greater Armenia (1222−1242) -- The Mongol Noyans in the Land of the Armenians -- The Final Mongol Conquest of Armenia by Baiju and Its Impact onthe Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (1242−1245) -- Factors that Impacted the Mongol Conquest of Armenia -- CHAPTER THREE STRATEGIC SUBMISSIONS BY THE ARMENIANS -- Individual Submissions and Contacts of Greater Armenian Princeswith the Mongol Khans and Il-Khans -- State Submission and Its Development: The Armenian Kingdomof Cilicia -- Conflicts of Local Interests in Greater Armenia in the 1240s−1270s -- Other Factors Influencing Mongol-Armenian Relations -- CHAPTER FOUR MONGOL ADMINISTRATION IN GREATER ARMENIA (1243-1275) -- Darughachis in Greater Armenia -- Mongol Census-taking in Greater Armenia -- Tributes and Taxes -- CHAPTER FIVE MONGOL ARMENIAN MILITARY COOPERATION:STAGE I: THE CONQUEST OF THE MIDDLE EAST (1258-1260) -- Hűlegű (r. 1256-1265) and the Greater Armenian Forces against theMuslim Supremacies -- The Mongol Penetration into Upper Mesopotamia -- The Implementation of a Cilician Armenian Dream -- CHAPTER SIX THE IL-KHANS' WARS AND MONGOL-CILICIANARMENIAN COLLABORATION: STAGE II (1260-1265) -- Joint Ventures of Hűlegű and Het'um I in Syria -- The Participation of the Armenians in the Il-Khanid Waragainst the Golden Horde -- CHAPTER SEVEN MONGOL-ARMENIAN COOPERATION: STAGE III (1265-1295).

The Strongest Pairing of Abaqa and Het'um I against Baybars -- Greater Armenia and the Struggle with the Golden Horde -- Lewon III and Abaqa against Baybars -- The Mongols ' Appeal to Latin Christendom -- Mongol-Armenian Relations in the Time of Tegűder A mad (r. 1282-1284) -- The Second Pairing of Arghun and King Lewon III against SultanQalāwūn -- The Weakest Link: Het'um II and the Mongol Il-Khans: Geikhatu (r. 1291-1295) and Baidu (1295) -- CHAPTER EIGHT THE END OF MONGOL-ARMENIAN RELATIONS (1295-1335) -- The Last Chance to Save the Alliance: Het'um II and the Il-KhanGhazan (r. 1295-1304) -- The Vanquished Armenian Hope: Öljeitű (r. 1304-1316) and HisArmenian Counterparts -- The Aftermath of Cooperation: Lewon V (r. 1320-1341/1342) andAbū Sa īd (r. 1316-1335) -- CONCLUSION -- DYNASTIC TABLES -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature -- INDEX.