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Military ·Medieval ·Transregional ·Eurasia

Campaign Vectors of the Mongol Conquests, 1206–1294

Source-to-objective vectors of the principal Mongol campaigns, by khan.

20 records 1206–1294 CE 40.75° N · 83.93° E
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Fig. 1 Interactive distribution of the 20 geolocated records on a live carto-positron base · globe / flat projection · decimal degrees (WGS 84).
Abstract

A representative set of campaign vectors drawn from the Mongol conquests, each rendered as an arc from the launching base to the principal objective and attributed to the directing khan. Arc width encodes the nominal size of the host. The compilation is illustrative — assembled by hand to exercise the engine's flow cartography — rather than an exhaustive order of battle.

Record
ThemeMilitary — conflict & fortification
RegionEurasia
Temporal range1206–1294 CE
Geographic coverageTransregional
Records20 geolocated entities
Data sourceRepresentative compilation (manual)
Centroid40.75° N · 83.93° E
Last revisedJun 2026
Provenance & sources

A hand-assembled, representative dataset (not an exhaustive corpus): launching bases, objectives, dates and nominal host sizes are drawn from standard narrative accounts of the Mongol conquests and simplified for cartographic illustration of source→target flows.

Recommended citation
Ortelius Editorial Board, ed. “Campaign Vectors of the Mongol Conquests, 1206–1294” [dataset]. Ortelius: A Research Atlas of Thematic Cartography, Study AT-031. 2026. doi:10.5281/ortelius.031
DATASET CC BY 4.0 · ENRICHMENT CC0 · CARTOGRAPHY MIT
Data & reproducibility

The published dataset is distributed as CSV with a derived GeoJSON edition; coordinates are decimal degrees on the WGS 84 datum. DOI 10.5281/ortelius.031.