Abaqa Khan

Abaqa Khan (1234–1282), second Ilkhan of Iran, succeeded his father Hulagu in 1265. He fixed the capital at Tabriz and married Maria Palaiologina, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Michael VIII.

His reign was spent warring with the Golden Horde and the Chagatai Khanate and raiding Syria, where the Mamluks defeated him at the Second Battle of Homs in 1281. He died at Hamadan in 1282 and was succeeded by his brother Tekuder; his own sons Arghun and Gaykhatu later ruled.