Despite Mar Yahballaha's best efforts to avert the impending doom, the citadel was at last taken by Ilkhanate troops and Kurdish tribesmen on July 1,1310, and all the defenders were massacred, including all the Christian inhabitants of the lower town.
Despite Mar Yahballaha's best efforts to avert the impending doom, the Christians strongly resisted. The citadel was at last taken by Ilkhanate troops and Kurdish tribesmen on July 1,1310, and all the defenders were massacred, including all the Christian inhabitants of the lower town.