Battle of Beas River

Part of Mongol invasion of Central Asia

Date	1285
Location	Beas River
Result	Decisive Mamluk sultanate victory

Belligerents

Chagatai Khanate

Mamluk sultanate

Commanders and leaders

Ghiyas ud din Balban
Muhammad Khan †

Mongol invasions of India

Indus Lahore Beas river Punjab Jalandhar Sind Kili Amroha Ravi

Mongol invasions and conquests

Asia
Burma	First Ngasaunggyan Pagan Second
Central Asia	Qara Khitai Khwarezm
China	Western Xia Jin Song
Japan	Bun'ei Kōan
Vietnam	Bạch Đằng
Other invasions	India Java Korea Tibet
Europe
Georgia Rus' Volga Bulgaria (Samara Bend, Bilär) Dzurdzuketia (Chechnya) Poland (first) Hungary (first) Bulgaria and Serbia Poland (second) Hungary (second) Poland (third)
Middle East
Khwarezmia Anatolia (Köse Dağ, Byzantine–Mongol alliance, Mongol Armenia) Baghdad Levant Palestine (Ain Jalut)

The battle of Beas River was a battle between Chagatai Khanate army and the Mamluk sultanate in 1285. Ghiyas ud din Balban arranged a military defense line across Beas River as part of his "blood and iron" fortification chain strategy at Multan and Lahore as a countermeasure against the Chagatai Khanate invasion. However, his son Muhammad Khan was slain in battle.^[1]

Primary sources

Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi Ziauddin Barani

Reference List

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- Satish Chandra (2004). Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals-Delhi Sultanat (1206-1526) - Part One. Har-Anand Publications. pp. 66–. ISBN 978-81-241-1064-5.
- Kausar Ali (1978). A new history of Indo-Pakistan: from Dravidians to Sultanates. Aziz Publishers.
- John McLeod (2015). The History of India. ABC-CLIO. pp. 42–. ISBN 978-1-61069-766-8.
- Jaswant Lal Mehta (1979). Advanced Study in the History of Medieval India. Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. pp. 131–. ISBN 978-81-207-0617-0.

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