HULUGU, grandson of Chengiz Khan, founded the Mongol dynasty of Persia. On the 22d of January 1258, he appeared with his army before Baghdad. On the first of February he took the city by storm, and put an end to the power of the khalifs. He had made the khalif Mostassim believe that he was willing to give his (laughter in marriage to the khalif's sou. But when the principal people were thus all got together, the Tartars set on them, and put them all to death. Baghdad, the city of science, learning, and pleasure, was given up to pillage and slaughter, and more than 800,000 persons were mercilessly destroyed. Sanut declares that Hulugu killed the khalif by pouring molten gold down his throat. Whilst the Mongol were covering Poland with blood and ruins, Hulugu, iu the east, was completing the conquest of Syria. After the capture of Baghdad, he entered Mesopotamia, seized on Merdin and Harran, passed the Euphrates, and made himself master of Aleppo and Damascus. The Tartar general had sent orders to Nasir, the sultan of Aleppo, to submit at once, and come in person to meet him. Not being complied with, Hulugu laid siege to Aleppo. Twenty catapults played for five days against the town, and it was taken by assault on the 18th January 1260. An in
credible amount of treasure was found in it, and the carnage was still more horrible than at Baghdad. The streets were choked up with corpses, and it is stated that 100,000 women and children were sold for slaves in Little Armenia or in the territories of Europeans. He was succeeded by his son Abaka, who married a daughter of Michael Palmologus, the Greek emperor. His brother Nicolas, who succeeded him, became a Mahomedan ; but Arghun Khan, son of Nicolas, was hostile to the people of that creed. Arghun sent. embassies, conducted by a Genoese named Buscarelli, to the I'opo, and to the kings of France and England, proposing an alliance against the Saracens and Turks ; and in 1290 Edward t. of England sent Geoffrey de Langley on a return mission to him. Argbun having lost his favourite wife in 128G, sent kublai Khan to select another for him, and the I'olo relatives were commis sioned by Kublai Khan to escort the new bride ho had chosen for his nephew, to the Persian court. —Ilk's Christianity, i. p. 268.
11U3IA, a fabulous bird, the pheenix of classical writers, also the hoopoe, Upupa epo.