Editing Urfa (section)

===Mongol rule===
In 1260, Urfa voluntarily submitted to the troops of [[Hulagu]] and thus came under Mongol rule.<ref name="Brill EoI"/>{{rp|591}} Because the city had surrendered peacefully, its inhabitants were spared.<ref name="Brill EoI"/>{{rp|591}}

The Mongols never garrisoned Urfa; it was near their western border with the [[Mamluk Sultanate]] and was probably seen as "too difficult to defend".<ref name="Sinclair 1990"/>{{rp|7}} Its ruined fortress was "probably not thought worth repairing".<ref name="Sinclair 1990"/>{{rp|7}} The city was desolate at this point; its inhabitants had evacuated or abandoned it and "only Turcoman nomads lived in the otherwise empty city".<ref name="Sinclair 1990"/>{{rp|7}}