Destruction of the Golden Horde
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Government and Politics, Military History, Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution
- Subcategories: Invasions, Raids, Conquests, Sieges, Emperors, Caesars, Khans, Barbarians, Nomads
- Curriculum: Renaissance History, Medieval History/Middle Ages, Asian History, Russian/Former Soviet States History
- Geographical Location: Moscow, Russia, Europe, Ukraine
- Date: 1480-1502
Article abstract: The destruction of the Golden Horde marks the emergence of Russia as a European political entity out from under the dominance of the Mongol khans.
Summary of Event
The destruction of the Golden Horde marked the end of nearly two and a half centuries of Mongol rule in Russia. The Mongols first appeared in Russia in May of 1223, when a raiding party, pushing northward from Persia, defeated a joint Russian-Polovtsy force at the Kalka River in the steppes north of the Black Sea. In 1237, Batu, the grandson of Genghis Khan, began a...
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