Kammala wannan jumla: Bayan nasarar Mamluk a kan Mongol Ilkhanate a
A Ain Jalut a 1260, inda rundunar mayakan Armeniya 500 da kuma masu goyon bayansu suka halarci, sojojin Mamluk sun fara jerin hare-haren da aka yi wa masarautar Cilician Armenia, abokin kawancen Ilkhanate da kuma jihar kirista mai wadata da ke iyaka da Gabashin Bahar Rum. Musamman, a cikin 1266, ba tare da abokan haɗin Mongol da Sarki Hethum I ba wanda ke tafiya zuwa Karakorum don neman taimako, Armeniya ta sha wahala sosai yayin da sojojin Mamluk suka mamaye su a Mari, kusa da Darbsak. A cikin 1275, Mamluk Sultan Baibars ya mamaye Cilician Armenia, ya kori babban birninta Sis (amma ba birni ba) kuma ya rushe fadar sarauta. Sojojinsa masu fashi sun kashe mazauna kwarin duwatsu kuma suka kwashe ganima mai yawa. Birnin tashar jiragen ruwa na Ayas ya lalace kuma ya ƙone shi da ginshiƙin Mamluk kuma wasu mazaunan Frankish da Armeniya 2000 sun nitse yayin da suke ƙoƙarin neman mafaka a kan jiragen ruwa a tashar jiragen ruwa. An lalatar da Filayen Kilikiya kuma aka kashe mazaunanta da takobi ko kuma aka kai su bauta. Bisa ga shaidun gani da ido, waɗanda suka nemi mafaka a wurare masu garu ne kawai suka tsira daga kisan. Birnin Tarsus ma ya zama kango. A cikin wannan mahallin, masarautar Armeniya, galibi amintacce a cikin sansanonin tsaunukanta, sun haɗu a kusa da Sarki Leo II (ɗan Hethum I) da Constable Sempad.