Ilkhanate

The Ilkhanate was a Mongol khanate founded in the southwestern territories of the Mongol Empire and ruled by the Il-Khans, or Ilkhanids. It was known to the Mongols as Huelegue Ulus and was officially called the Land of Iran or Iran. Its core territory lay in what are now Iran, Azerbaijan, and Turkey, and at its greatest extent it also included parts of Iraq, Syria, Armenia, Georgia, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Dagestan. Later rulers beginning with Ghazan in 1295 converted to Islam. After Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan died in 1335, the Ilkhanate disintegrated.